Lesson Five – Santa’s Trip

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to write a narrative story to describe one of the special places that Santa could visit on holiday after Christmas.

The class can try using the conjunction and to link pairs of clauses and words in their sentences to list what might happen on Santa’s holiday such as getting lost in a city or falling in the sea at the beach.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to write a narrative story to describe one of the special places that Santa could visit on holiday after Christmas

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of display posters to identify the sequence of events in a narrative story and suggest what might happen next following the presented scenarios and a template to write and present sentences to use in a narrative story about one of the special places that Santa could visit on holiday.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a narrative story to describe one of the special places that Santa could visit on holiday after Christmas.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write a narrative story to describe some of the different places that Santa could visit on a holiday. 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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