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Zoo Visit
This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore how to compose and present a personal recount about a family visit to a zoo using a storyboard to sequence sentences and illustrations for the outing.
The class can practise selecting and adding word phrases to complete examples sentences describing events and experiences to match the visited location.
Download this teaching pack including a shared reading test, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to compose and present a personal recount about a family visit to a zoo using a storyboard to sequence sentences and illustrations for the outing
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a recount of a family visit to a zoo, a template to select vocabulary and add illustrations to complete a recount of a family outing to a zoo location and a vocabulary word bank to support the completion of sentences when writing a recount about a family holiday outing.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a personal recount of a family visit to a zoo using a storyboard for matching sentences and illustrations.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to practise devising story boards using word phrases and illustrations to recount some of the special events and experiences that might happen on a family holiday outing. 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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