Winning Gold
This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and model how to compose a set of written instructions for athletes to follow about how to win different races and games at a sporting competition.
The class can explain how to format and structure instructional writing using commands at the start of each sentence to compel the reader to perform an action when trying to win a sport or game.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and model how to compose a set of written instructions for athletes to follow about how to win different races and games at a sporting competition
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how to write a set of instructions about how to win a race, worksheets to select and record verbs that can be used to describe how to win a gold medal and a set of cards to sequence a set of instructions into the correct order about how to win a gold medal at a sporting competition.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a set of instructions about how to win different races or games at a sporting competition.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to compose sets of instructions for athletes and players to follow when competing in a range of different sports and games. 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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