George's Marvellous Medicine based SPAG activity

This is an activity to use in a SPAG lesson when reading George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. It is great for nouns as the first part requires the children to match the objects used by George to a picture of the character they most likely belong to.

Once the warm up is complete the children will write sentences using possessive apostrophes to explain what ingredients George put into his medicine and who they belonged to. There is a ‘Must, Should, Could’ for differentiation and a LA activity is on the final sheet whereby the children simply fill in the character’s name with the apostrophe on a line within a sentence. You can then get them to copy the sentences into their books if you desire.

Example sentence the children could write;
George put Mrs Kranky’s lipstick into the pan.

The ‘Could’ also encourages children to use and to make their sentences longer.

George put Mrs Kranky’s lipstick and powder into the pan.