Boxing Day
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to write and present sets of instructions that a family can follow to explain some of the special ways of celebrating Christmas together on Boxing Day.
The class can identify and record imperative verbs that can be used at the start of an instruction to compel the reader to perform an action when completing events on Boxing Day.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to write and present sets of instructions that a family can follow to explain some of the special ways of celebrating Christmas together on Boxing Day
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a set of instructions, worksheets to role-play and record instructions for different events about how to celebrate a Christmas together as a family on Boxing Day and a vocabulary word bank to support writing a set of instructions about how to celebrate Christmas.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write sets of instructions to explain how to celebrate Christmas together as a family on Boxing Day.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and model how to structure and format sets of instructions for families and groups of friends to follow when celebrating Christmas. 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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