Activities to help the children develop their writing skills for English. There are resources for whole class and group teaching as well as independent learning which can be adapted to meet the needs of your class.
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Key Stage Two : English : Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation : Sentence Extensions
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using commas to add relative clauses to sentences extracted from classic works of fiction. The class can identify how to use vocabulary to extend sentences adding more information and details about the subject of a sentence using the correct punctuation.
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This teaching pack includes four lessons to teach the class about using commas to add relative clauses to sentences. There are activities for shared, independent and group learning.
This scheme of work for English is recommended for Years Five and Six in Key Stage Two although it could also be easily differentiated for children in other ages and classes to use.
Skills covered in this teaching pack include identifying the subject of a sentence, adding relative clauses to extend the understanding of a sentence subject and using commas to punctuate relative clauses.
Lesson One : The Secret Garden
Practise adding extra information to sentences from a classic story by a significant author using relative clauses. Some children can be supported by getting them to match relative clauses to different sentences. Preview this lesson.
Lesson Two : Five Children and It
Use relative clauses to extend sentences about characters that feature in a work of classic fiction by a significant author. The class can select different sentences from the text to change by adding a relative clause.
Lesson Three : Alice in Wonderland
Practise using relative clauses to change different sentences taken from a work of classic fiction by a significant author. The children can record how to use different relative clauses beginning with which, where, when, whose or that.
Lesson Four : Black Beauty
Practise using relative clauses to extend sentences from a work of classic fiction. The class can select and change sentences from a text extract by adding their own relative clauses.
Buy this teaching pack including lesson plans, classroom activities and interactive presentations to teach the children about using commas to add relative clauses to sentences.
All four lessons for only £3.95
You can preview lesson one from this scheme of work to see if it will match the needs of your class. If you have any questions about this English scheme of work for Key Stage Two then please contact us so that we can help.
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