Key Stage Two : English : Year Four Planning : Story Characters : Lesson Five – Wanted Poster


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and present information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author. The class can explain why characters are important to the narrative structure of a story.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and present information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author

Learning Objectives

Composing and rehearsing sentences orally, progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures. Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions.

Learning Outcomes

I can write descriptive sentences to describe story characters. I can use conjunctions to link clauses and phrases in sentences.

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Teaching sequence to help the children identify and present information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author

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Template to help the children present information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author

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Interactive activity to help the children identify and present information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and present information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author

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