Key Stage Two : English : Year Five Planning : Story Ingredients : Lesson One – Matching Silent Letters


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and spell different words with a range of silent letters to utilise when playing a matching game. The class can use words with silent letters to describe characters that might feature in different types of stories

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and spell different words with a range of silent letters to utilise when playing a matching game

Learning Objectives

Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters. Identifying and discussing themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing.

Learning Outcomes

I can identify and spell words with silent letters. I can explain techniques used by authors to structure stories.

Matching Silent Letters

Teaching sequence to help the children identify and spell different words with a range of silent letters to utilise when playing a matching game

Silent Letters Game

Activity to help the children play a matching game to identify and spell different words with a range of silent letters

Silent Letters Matching

Activity to help the children to identify and group different words with the same matching silent letters

Matching Silent Letters

Interactive activity to help the children identify and spell different words with a range of silent letters to utilise when playing a matching game

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and spell different words with a range of silent letters to utilise when playing a matching game

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