Key Stage Two : English : Year Four Planning : Story Characters : Lesson Three – Character Lists


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and record collections of powerful adjectives to describe different characters in a story. The class can practise using thesauruses to collect matching synonyms for different words used to describe a story character.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and record collections of powerful adjectives to describe different characters in a story

Learning Objectives

Discussing and recording ideas. Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including because.

Learning Outcomes

I can select vocabulary to describe a story character. I can link sentence clauses using the conjunction because.

Character Lists

Teaching sequence to help the children select and record collections of powerful adjectives to describe different characters in a story

Character List

Template to help the children select and record collections of powerful adjectives to describe a character in a story

Character Lists

Interactive activity to help the children select and record collections of powerful adjectives to describe different characters in a story

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and record collections of powerful adjectives to describe different characters in a story

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