Lesson Five – Olympic Race

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to select and combine vocabulary words to compose list poems describing some of the special actions and events connected to an Olympic sport.

The class can suggest and record how they can add the suffix ing to word roots to build a selection of different words matching a sport to describe in poetry.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to select and combine vocabulary words to compose list poems describing some of the special actions and events connected to an Olympic sport

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define vocabulary words that can be used to describe different actions and movements connected to a specific sport, a template to select and combine vocabulary words to compose list poems describing an Olympic sport and a vocabulary word bank to compile lists of verbs that can be used to describe sports.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select and combine vocabulary to compose list poems describing actions and events connected to an Olympic sport.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select and combine descriptive vocabulary words to compose and perform poems describing actions and events connected to competing in different sports. 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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