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The old shed<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for proper nouns<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Full stops<br />
• Commas in lists<br />
• Grammatical commas<br />
• Quotation marks for direct speech<br />
Grammar<br />
• Adverbs<br />
Spelling<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
Vocabulary<br />
• Compound words<br />
Teacher information<br />
Narratives tell a story, often involving fictitious characters, in a sequence of events.<br />
Answers<br />
Jack swung open the door of the old shed<br />
swung<br />
<strong>and</strong> stepped inside. It slammed shut behind him.<br />
slammed<br />
He stared around with wide eyes.<br />
stared<br />
In the middle of the room, in the thick dust <strong>and</strong><br />
thick<br />
spider webs, stood a small wooden table. It was<br />
wooden<br />
set with polished silver plates <strong>and</strong> cutlery <strong>and</strong> a<br />
cutlery<br />
single c<strong>and</strong>le was burning brightly in an<br />
brightly<br />
elaborate c<strong>and</strong>lestick. Jack shivered violently.<br />
violently<br />
This was creepy. And the damp, musty smell was<br />
creepy<br />
making him feel queasy. He had to get out.<br />
queasy<br />
Swiftly, he turned towards the door <strong>and</strong><br />
Swiftly<br />
grabbed at the h<strong>and</strong>le.<br />
grabbed<br />
‘Don’t go. Come <strong>and</strong> eat’, whispered a<br />
whispered<br />
voice in his ear.<br />
voice<br />
Jack screamed <strong>and</strong> desperately rattled the h<strong>and</strong>le.<br />
desperately<br />
‘Help! Let me out!’<br />
out<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
1. Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
2. (a) Adverbs are underlined.<br />
brightly, violently, Swiftly, desperately<br />
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
swung, slammed, stared, thick, wooden, cutlery, creepy, queasy, grabbed, whispered, voice,<br />
out<br />
4. Compound words are underlined in bold.<br />
(a) inside, behind, around, c<strong>and</strong>lestick, towards<br />
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