Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how to structure and format a recount of a family visit to a castle and a differentiated set of worksheets to select and record the sequence of events and experiences that could happen during a family visit to a beach by completing a storyboard for support ability levels, ordering sentences for core ability levels and composing sentences for extension ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sequence events and experiences that could happen during a family visit to a beach using time adverbials.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write recounts of a family visit to a special location that also includes weather information, practise spelling different words using the suffix ing and write a range of sentences that are either statements or questions to explore places. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.