Lesson Three – Zoo Questions

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and record instructions that can be given to callers to a helpline to provide information about a zoo visit to answer their questions.
The class can identity and model how to use commas to insert extra information as relative clauses into sentences to provide more details about the subject.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and record instructions that can be given to callers to a helpline to provide information about a zoo visit to answer their questions
Activities in this teaching pack include table display cards to help select and record some of the different questions that visitors might ask about a visit to a zoo to use when modelling example sets of instructions about zoo enclosures and locations.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record instructions that can be given to callers to a helpline to provide information about a zoo visit.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write different instructions that can be used to support visitors to a zoo. 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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