This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to read and write different sets of instructions that can be followed by the crew to perform tasks and jobs on board a pirate ship.

The class can identify how to sequence a set of commands to show the order of actions that need to be performed to complete each job when working on a ship as the pirate crew.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to read and write different sets of instructions that can be followed by the crew to perform tasks and jobs on board a pirate ship

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a set of instructions that pirates can follow to complete tasks on board a pirate ship, a worksheet to role-play and record verbs that can be used to complete different jobs on board a pirate ship and a set of cards to identity and sequence a set of instructions about how to make a meal into the correct order.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write sets of instructions that can be followed to perform different tasks on board a pirate ship.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate and model how to compose different sets of instructions for pirates to follow when working on board a pirate ship. 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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