Lesson Five – Holiday Diary

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise using past tense vocabulary words in example sentences to describe some of the special things that might happen during a family visit to the seaside.
The class can select and record simple sentences to use in a model recounts about a family holiday to the seaside describing events and experiences.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using past tense vocabulary words in example sentences to describe some of the special things that might happen during a family visit to the seaside
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify sentences written in the past tense that suggest what might happen during a family visit to the seaside and a set of cards to sort sentences that could be used to describe different locations that a family could visit on holiday.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use past tense vocabulary in sentences to describe what might happen during a family visit to the seaside.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense. 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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