Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define descriptive vocabulary words that have been used to describe special places that a family could visit and differentiated sets of cards to identify, match and group matching sets of words with the vowel digraphs ar or or.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to play games to identify and match different words containing the vowel digraphs or and ar.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write poems about different places that are special to families using descriptive vocabulary, spell words containing the vowel digraphs ar and or and practise using and to join words and clauses in sentences about a range of locations. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.