Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to explain how to structure and format a set of instructions about the Roman army and a set of cards to select and write sets of instructions for different scenarios related to preparing the Roman army for battle against different communities and settlements.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a set of instructions about how to prepare the Roman army for battle.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and model how to compose sets of instructions for Romans to follow when expanding their empire and civilization around the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.