Lesson Three – Location Words
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise selecting and compiling lists of vocabulary words that can be used to describe a special place that can be visited in the local area.
The class can choose some sets of words to describe the sights, sounds, actions and colours to match one specific location such as a swimming pool or local park.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting and compiling lists of vocabulary words that can be used to describe a special place that can be visited in the local area
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how poets can use vocabulary words in a poem to describe a visit to a special place and a set of differentiated worksheets to record lists of vocabulary words that can be used to describe a special place to visit in the local area.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compile lists of vocabulary words that can be used to describe a special place to visit in the local area.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to create descriptive images to use in poetry to describe different places in the local community, identify and record the double meanings of words that are homonyms and build expanded noun phrases using powerful adjectives and prepositions. 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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