KS2 Setting Description Word Mats

5 Narrative Word Mats: Key Stage 2 Sentence Structure & Vocabulary Support

Boost your children’s narrative writing with this pack of 5 child-friendly, easy-to-use word mats, carefully designed to strengthen sentence structure while encouraging ambitious vocabulary choices.

Each mat focuses on an engaging setting:

• Dark Cave
• Desert & Sand
• Forest & Jungle
• Island & Coast
  Snowy Mountain

The mats can be printed back-to-back, making them perfect for independent use. Children can easily refer to them during writing tasks, building confidence as they vary sentence starters, experiment with structure and select precise vocabulary.

Packed with Key Stage 2 grammatical features, these mats support:

• Relative clauses
• Parenthesis
• Prepositional phrases
• Fronted adverbials
• Varied sentence openers
• Expanded noun phrases and more

They also include a wide range of Key Stage 2 spelling patterns, making them a fantastic tool for naturally embedding spelling knowledge into extended writing - and a dream for gathering evidence towards end of Key Stage 2 moderation.
Practical, engaging and great value, these word mats help pupils write with control, variety and confidence across a range of narrative settings.