School Olympics
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and describe how to compose and publish a letter to persuade the International Olympic Committee to hold and run the next games on the school field.
The class can select and record viewpoints of a group that might impacted by a large sporting event held at the school to use when composing their letters.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe how to compose and publish a letter to persuade the International Olympic Committee to hold and run the next games on the school field
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to use persuasive language to argue a viewpoint in a letter, a set of cards to select and record different reasons for and against holding the Olympics at the school and a worksheet to check and make corrections and improvements to a letter that uses persuasive language to argue a point of view.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a letter to persuade the Olympic committee to hold the next games on the school field.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise using persuasive language and sentence structures to compose and present requests about different things that could happen in the school. 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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