Key Stage Two : English : Year Four Planning : Story Characters
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore different ways that authors describe and use characters in narrative stories, practise identifying words with irregular past tense spellings and write sentences to describe story characters using conjunctions based on James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl.
Explore different ways that authors describe and use characters in narrative stories
Lesson One : Past Tense Words
Identify and match different words written in the past tense using the correct irregular spellings
Lesson Two : Sentence Links
Practise using a range of conjunctions to link sentence clauses about different story characters
Lesson Three : Character Lists
Select and record collections of powerful adjectives to describe different characters in a story
Lesson Four : New Character
Select and describe a character that could feature in a story by a significant author
Lesson Five : Wanted Poster
Identify and present information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author
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