Pirate Party Cakes
This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to read and follow a set of instructions about how to bake and decorate cakes for a party on board a pirate ship.
The class can identify and define the imperative verbs that can be used at the start of each instruction to initiate commands about how to make the matching sets of cakes for a pirate party.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to read and follow a set of instructions about how to bake and decorate cakes for a party on board a pirate ship
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to sequence a set of instructions about how to make cakes into the correct order and a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a set of instructions before making changes to the modelled cup cakes.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to follow a set of instructions about how to bake and decorate cakes for a party on board a pirate ship.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate and model how to compose different sets of instructions for pirates to follow when working on board a pirate ship. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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