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Classroom Visitors
This literacy topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and role play events and experiences about the school day based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod.
The class can model how to complete simple sentences and picture storyboards to sequence and record narrative events explaining how to support classroom visitors.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and role play events and experiences about the school day based on When an Elephant Comes to School by Jan Ormerod
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to role-play different story events about welcoming visitors to the classroom and a template to select and record a sequence of narrative events and experiences based on reading and discussion about what can happen in a school.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record and illustrate information about some of the events and experiences about the school day.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to practise using storyboards to sequence some of the special events that might happen in a school by recording personal recounts. 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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