Key Stage Two : English : Year Three Planning : Story Places : Lesson Five – Story Settings


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and list vocabulary that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different stories. The class can compose sentences that might feature in a story containing the selected story settings.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and list vocabulary that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different stories

Learning Objectives

Composing and rehearsing sentences orally, progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary. Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause.

Learning Outcomes

I can select appropriate vocabulary to write sentences to describe story settings. I can use a conjunction to link and co-ordinate sentence clauses.

Story Settings

Teaching sequence to help the children select and list vocabulary that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different stories

Sentence Conjunctions

Table display card to help the children select and use different conjunctions to extend sentences when writing about familiar settings that feature in different stories

Story Sentences

Activity to help the children select and compose sentences that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different stories

Story Settings

Interactive activity to help the children select and list vocabulary that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different stories

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and list vocabulary that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different stories

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