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Lesson Five – Christmas Preparations

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to draft and edit an explanation to describe how Santa makes different preparations to deliver presents around the world at Christmas.
The class can include sentences with apostrophes to indicate possession in their explanation describing how and why Santa gets ready for his Christmas journey.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to draft and edit an explanation to describe how Santa makes different preparations to deliver presents around the world at Christmas
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to structure and format an explanation about how Mrs Claus helps Santa get ready for Christmas, a template to structure and write an explanation of why and how Santa prepares for Christmas and a worksheet to edit and correct an explanation to match its text features.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to draft and edit an explanation about how Santa prepares for Christmas.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write an explanation to describe how Santa Claus prepares for Christmas including using apostrophes to indicate possession in sentences. 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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