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Seaside Trip

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to sequence and record a range of different events and experiences to describe a family visit to a seaside location.
The class can complete simple sentences and picture storyboards to sequence and record narrative events describing a visit to a seaside such as playing on the beach and visiting a funfair.
Download this teaching pack including display posters, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to sequence and record a range of different events and experiences to describe a family visit to a seaside location
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe narrative activities that might happen during a family visit to a seaside location and sets of cards to select and match different sentences and record illustrations that can be used to describe a family visit to the seaside.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sequence and record a range of different activities to describe a family visit to a seaside location.
This lesson can support development in learning how to recount experiences of an event. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.
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