Cinderella Themed English/SPAG/Comprehension Activities Year 2

Apostrophes for Contraction:
Differentiated 3 ways -
Top group has to find words where apostrophes have to be added and re-write sentences using apostrophes in the correct places.
Middle Group has to change underlined words to words with apostrophes.
Bottom group has to match contradicted form to the two words it is made of and work on a few sentences as challenge.

Comprehension. Differentiated 4 ways -
Higher order thinking questions. To go with a printout of the story that YOU have e.g. book, twinkle etc. Text not included just questions.
Retrieval questions
Multiple choice questions
Colouring in Cinderella comprehension with challenge question and sentence to unscramble.
For the top two, part of the sentence is in bold which they have to use as sentence starter for their answer to encourage them to answer in full sentences.
VERY BASIC SLIDE ON NOTEBOOK TO INTRODUCE

Speech/Thought bubble activity
Children work in mixed ability on these four scenarios again to fill in thought and speech bubbles. Could be acted out in partners too. Not differentiated.

Up-leveling
Short activity - improving 6 sentences. Differentiated by outcome - children follow the steps to the step they can get to.

Correcting mistakes
Children proofread sentences where is/are and him/her are not correct and edit them. For children who cannot access this there is a second activity about unscrambling sentences about Cinderella.

Sequencing Pictures Activity
Not differentiated. Children can cut and stick pictures in the correct order and label/annotate/write sentences.Great for EAL.

Grammatically correct sentences.
This activity is based on a Pie Corbett game. You start with challenge 1 and make a sentence with just one word. Then move on to challenge 2 and add a second word, so now you have to use both words in a sentence. Then you add a third, non-related word and children have to come up with a grammatically correct sentence and use their imagination to add write a new sentence this time using all three words.

Identifying speech and adding speech marks.
In a small group or in partners children read following Cinderella text. They work out together which bits are spoken by the characters, then underline what is spoken. Next they re-write in their book and put the spoken sentence which they underlined inside speech marks “_____”.