Easter Tongue Twisters

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to read and invent a range of tongue twister poems based on different objects and themes that can be used to celebrate Easter as a special time of the year.
The class can compile and record lists of objects, feelings and experiences that begin with the same phoneme sound to use when composing their tongue twisters about Easter.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to read and invent a range of tongue twister poems based on different objects and themes that can be used to celebrate Easter as a special time of the year
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe vocabulary and phoneme patterns in different tongue twisters, templates to select and record vocabulary with the same initial sounds to use in a tongue twister and a set of cards to join vocabulary words to build different tongue twister using words with the same sounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to invent tongue twister poems based on objects and themes related to Easter.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise selecting and using special vocabulary words to compose poems that play with language when describing things that represent Easter celebrations. 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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