Lesson Five – Olympic Medal

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise writing and editing a matching set of instructions about how to win a medal at the Olympic Games when competing in a specific sport or game.

The class can i record how to make corrections and improvements to their instructions so that they are easy to follow to help an athlete win a medal at the games.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise writing and editing a matching set of instructions about how to win a medal at the Olympic Games when competing in a specific sport or game

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to format and structure a set of instructions about how to train for a particular sport and a worksheet to edit and redraft a set of instructions about how to train for a sport in order to win a medal at the Olympic Games.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write and edit a set of instructions about how to win a medal at the Olympic Games.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write sets of instructions choosing vocabulary words and sentence structures for clarity about how to become successful at an Olympic sport. 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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