Holiday Weather
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing a recount to describe different types of weather patterns in countries around the world that might be experienced on a family holiday.
The class can explain and model how to use adverbials to time to state when, how long or how often different things happened in their recount of a holiday event or experience.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise composing a recount to describe different types of weather patterns in countries around the world that might be experienced on a family holiday
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to investigate how to structure and format a recount of an experience, a template to record a recount of the weather experienced on a family holiday and vocabulary word bank to select adverbials of time to specify when, how long or how often something happened in a recount.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a recount to describe a family holiday to a special location in the world describing the weather experienced on the trip.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world. 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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