Zoo Encounters
This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to plan and write a personal recount of a family visit to a zoo describing encounters with some of the different animals that could be seen in this location.
The class can collect notes that can answer questions about the visit to use when structuring their recount writing using time adverbials to sequence what happened during the visit.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to plan and write a personal recount of a family visit to a zoo describing encounters with some of the different animals that could be seen in this location
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe how to structure and format a recount of a family visit to a zoo, a worksheet to record information to answer questions about a visit to the zoo as preparation for writing a recount, a vocabulary word bank to select time adverbials to use when sequencing events in a recount and a template to structure and format a recount of a family visit to a zoo describing encounters with different animals.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a recount of a family visit to a zoo describing encounters with different animals.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to compose recounts using time adverbials to sequence the events in family visits to familiar and unfamiliar locations. 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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