This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to play spelling word games to identify and match different words with the vowel digraphs of air and ear that can be used to describe some special family outings.

The class can practise using some of the matched words in example sentences to describe some of the special places that they can visit with their family.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to play spelling word games to identify and match different words with the vowel digraphs of air and ear that can be used to describe some special family outings

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define descriptive vocabulary in a poem that could be used to describe special places that families can visit on an outing and a worksheet and set of cards to play games to identify, match and group different words with the vowel digraphs of air and ear.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to play games to identify and match different words with the vowel digraphs of air and ear that can be used to describe family outings.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and explore poems with descriptive vocabulary about different places that families could visit on a special outing, practise spelling words with the vowel digraphs air and ear and join sentence clauses and words using the conjunction and. 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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