Lesson One – Seaside Storyboard

This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore how to identify and recount some of the special events and experiences that can happen when on holiday at the seaside using example sentences in the past tense.

The class can practise composing sentences to use in postcards describing what happened during a family holiday to the seaside.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to identify and recount some of the special events and experiences that can happen when on holiday at the seaside using example sentences in the past tense

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to sort sentences between the past and future tense describing things that might happen on a seaside holiday, a vocabulary word bank to record seaside events and experiences to use when recounting a family visit and a template to select and record illustrations and complete captions to describe seaside events and experiences.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to recount events and experiences and write captions to describe things that might happen on a seaside holiday.

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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