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, a worksheet for core and extension ability levels to compose sentences about visiting the countryside using the conjunction and to link words and clauses and a set of cards for support ability levels to build sentences about a family visit using the conjunction and to link words and clauses.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use the five senses to link sentences clauses using the conjunction and to describe visiting the countryside.

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.