Lesson Five – Pancake Tasting

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to test and evaluate a set of recipe instructions about how to make some pancakes with different toppings and fillings to celebrate Shrove Tuesday.

The class can practise following their recipes when preparing and making the selected pancakes to identify ideas for improvements when composing a set of instructions to make something.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to test and evaluate a set of recipe instructions about how to make some pancakes with different toppings and fillings to celebrate Shrove Tuesday

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how to format and structure a set of instructions for a pancake recipe and a worksheet to review and suggest improvements to a set of instructions about how to make some pancakes.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to test and evaluate a set of instructions about how to make some pancakes with different toppings and fillings.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to compose and follow a set of instructions about how to make some pancakes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday using the correct sentence structures and vocabulary words. 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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