Lesson Six – Harbour Life

This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise typing and formatting lines of text using a word processed document to describe some of the special things that can be seen when visiting a harbour location.
The class can select and type sentences to describe events and experiences that can happen in a harbour such as boarding a cruise liner or unloading a cargo ship.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise typing and formatting lines of text using a word processed document to describe some of the special things that can be seen when visiting a harbour location
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain how to compose sentences to describe some things that can be seen in a harbour and a vocabulary word bank to compose and type sentences to describe some of the different ships and boats moored in a harbour location.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to type and format lines of text using a word processed document to describe things seen in a harbour location.
This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to practise structuring and formatting different word processed documents to describe a range of ships and boats seen in a harbour. 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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