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Lesson Three – Santa’s Suitcase

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and record how to use the conjunction and to link pairs of items that might be needed by Santa for holidays to different locations.
The class can try composing their own sentences to list some of the special things that could be inside Santa’s suitcase that he might need when on holiday.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record how to use the conjunction and to link pairs of items that might be needed by Santa for holidays to different locations
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to write a sentence using the conjunction and to list items that might be needed by Santa for a specific holiday and a word bank to help select vocabulary to use in sentences with the conjunction and to list items that might be needed by Santa for different holidays.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use the conjunction and to link pairs of items that might be needed by Santa for different holidays.
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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