Key Stage Two : English : Year Four Planning : Story Characters : Lesson Two – Sentence Links


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using a range of conjunctions to link sentence clauses about different story characters. The children can select powerful adjectives to use in noun phrases describing a range of story characters.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise using a range of conjunctions to link sentence clauses about different story characters

Learning Objectives

Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions including because. Discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination.

Learning Outcomes

I can link clauses in a sentence using the conjunction because. I can identify adjectives to describe characters in a story.

Sentence Links

Teaching sequence to help the children practise using a range of conjunctions to link sentence clauses about different story characters

Story Sentences (support)

Activity to help the children select adjectives from a prepared list that can be used to describe story characters in sentences with conjunctions to link sentence clauses

Story Sentences (core)

Activity to help the children select adjectives that can be used to describe story characters in sentences with conjunctions to link sentence clauses

Story Sentences (extension)

Activity to help the children select adjectives that can be used to describe story characters in sentences with conjunctions to link sentence clauses

Sentence Links

Interactive activity to help the children practise using a range of conjunctions to link sentence clauses about different story characters

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise using a range of conjunctions to link sentence clauses about different story characters

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