Key Stage Two : English : Year Five Planning : Story Ingredients : Lesson Two – Story Sentences


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise converting a range of sentences from different story genres between the third and first person. The children can explain how authors can convey ideas about characters when structuring sentences.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise converting a range of sentences from different story genres between the third and first person

Learning Objectives

Using other similar writing as models for their own. Drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence.

Learning Outcomes

I can select vocabulary to write sentences in the first and third person. I can explain how authors use language to indicate the feelings of different characters.

Story Sentences

Teaching sequence to help the children practise converting a range of sentences from different story genres between the third and first person

What Character (support)

Activity to help the children identify and match pairs of sentences used to describe story characters in the third and first person

What Character (core)

Activity to help the children convert sentences from the the third to the first person to describe characters from different story genres

What Character (extension)

Activity to help the children compose sentences using the third and first person to describe characters from different story genres

Story Sentences

Interactive activity to help the children practise converting a range of sentences from different story genres between the third and first person

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise converting a range of sentences from different story genres between the third and first person

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