Perfect School Day
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to select and use vocabulary words and sentence structures to write a diary entry listing some of the special events that might happen during the school day.
The class can practise using time adverbials to sequence events in their recount writing for a diary entry about the start of a new school year to show what might happen in a new class.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to select and use vocabulary words and sentence structures to write a diary entry listing some of the special events that might happen during the school day
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a diary entry about a school day, a vocabulary word bank to select time adverbials to indicate when different things happened in a diary text and a template to compose and present a diary recount of a perfect school day.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use vocabulary words and sentence structures to write a diary entry listing some of the events that might happen during the school day.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to compose and publish recounts to describe and illustrate some of the special things that can happen in a 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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