This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to devise and sequence a set of instructions about how to prepare pancakes with different types of toppings to serve at a Shrove Tuesday party celebration.

The class can identify and list imperative verbs that can be used at the start of each instruction to command the reader to complete an action when making each of the different pancakes.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to devise and sequence a set of instructions about how to prepare pancakes with different types of toppings to serve at a Shrove Tuesday party celebration

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a set of instructions about how to make pancakes with different toppings, a template to record vocabulary to about how to make some pancakes, a vocabulary word bank to select words to use in a set of instructions about how to make pancakes with different toppings and worksheet for support ability levels to complete a a set of instructions about how to prepare some pancakes.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to devise and sequence a set of instructions about how to prepare pancakes using a range of toppings.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and model how to compose sets of instructions for families to follow when preparing pancakes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday. 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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