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Lesson Five – Cauldron Potion
This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise selecting and composing a set of instructions for a witch to follow about how to make a potion using special ingredients to cast a spell.
The class can identify the importance of re-reading their writing to check for spelling and grammar errors before producing and presenting a final copy for a witch to use.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting and composing a set of instructions for a witch to follow about how to make a potion using special ingredients to cast a spell
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to suggest how to prepare different materials to use when making a potion, a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a set of instructions about how to make a potion to cast a spell and a vocabulary word bank to draft and edit a set of instructions.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select and compose a set of instructions about how to make a potion to cast a spell.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select and write sets of instructions that a witch can follow when making a range of potions to use when casting different spells. 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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