Lesson Four – Santa’s Visit

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to compile a storyboard that can be used when planning a narrative story about a special place that Santa could visit on his holiday.

The class can select a problem that Santa might experience on his holiday and suggest how it could be resolved at the end of the story’s narrative sequence of events.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to compile a storyboard that can be used when planning a narrative story about a special place that Santa could visit on his holiday

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to structure and format a narrative story about where Santa could visit on holiday, a template to select and record the sequence of events in a story about Santa’s holiday and a vocabulary word bank to choose a setting to use in a narrative story about Santa’s holiday.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compile a storyboard to plan a narrative story about where Santa could visit on holiday.

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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