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Easter Eggs
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and use descriptive vocabulary to create a shape poem describing different types of eggs given for Easter. The class can practise using pronouns to replace proper nouns in sentences and use prepositions to describe the position of eggs in a garden.
Select and use special descriptive vocabulary words to create a shape poem describing different types of eggs given for Easter
Lesson One : Egg Colours
Identify, define and order some special and powerful vocabulary words that can be used to describe different Easter egg wrappings
Lesson Two : Egg Hunt
Select, define and practise using prepositions for place to describe the position of some different Easter eggs that might be hidden around a family garden
Lesson Three : Whose Egg
Explain and model how to convert between nouns and pronouns in different example sentences to describe ownership of a range of Easter eggs
Lesson Four : Egg Words
Select and record synonyms for different vocabulary words that can be used to build noun phrases for a poem describing a range of Easter eggs
Lesson Five : Easter Egg Poem
Practise drafting and editing shape poems containing special vocabulary words to describe different eggs that can be given to family members at Easter
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