This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to respond to stories with familiar settings to investigate story structure and descriptive vocabulary, practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to word roots and learn how to join sentences using conjunctions based on The Angel of Nitshill Road, Anne Fine.

Respond to stories with familiar settings to investigate story structure and descriptive vocabulary, practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to word roots and learn how to join sentences using conjunctions

Lesson One : Word Building

Practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to a selection of word roots to build a range of different words

Lesson Two : Word Signals

Identify and record whether to use the determinants a or an before nouns in sentences related to a story setting

Lesson Three : Sentence Links

Use the conjunctions because, but or when to link sentence clauses about things that might happen in a story set in a school.

Lesson Four : School Scenes

Create and perform short dramas to illustrate what might happen between friends in a school to match a story with a familiar setting

Lesson Five : Story Settings

Select and list vocabulary that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different stories

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