School Flood
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise writing a recount of something that could have happened in the school from different viewpoints related to a special weather event.
The class can explain and model how to use time adverbials to sequence events in their recount writing to show how a special type of weather might have affected the school buildings, teachers and pupils.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise writing a recount of something that could have happened in the school from different viewpoints related to a special weather event
Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to explain how to structure and format a recount of an event that could have happened in the school, a set of cards to record viewpoints for different weather events that might happen at the school, a template to structure a recount about a school weather event, a vocabulary word bank to select adverbials of time to use in a recount text and a worksheet to draft and edit a recount about a weather event that could happen in the school.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a recount of something that could have happened in the school from different viewpoints related to a weather event.
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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