This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and record lists of some of the special vocabulary words that could be used to locate and describe a family visit to a holiday location in the world.

The class can share and talk about their own experiences as preparation for writing a personal recount about visiting somewhere special on a family holiday.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and record lists of some of the special vocabulary words that could be used to locate and describe a family visit to a holiday location in the world

Activities in this teaching pack include a template to identify and record lists containing special vocabulary words that could be used to describe a visit to a holiday location to show family events that might be experienced on the trip.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record lists of vocabulary words that could be used to describe a family visit to a holiday location.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays, practise adding the suffix ed to word roots to indicate the past tense in sentences and investigate punctuation that can be used for statements and questions. 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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