Lesson Four – Islamic Festivals

This religious education teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing a written recount to describe and illustrate how Muslims observe the festival of Ramadan as part of their religion.

The class can identify and record the sequence of special festivals that are observed and celebrated by Muslims during the Islamic calendar throughout the year.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise composing a written recount to describe and illustrate how Muslims observe the festival of Ramadan as part of their religion

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how Muslims participate in a special time during the Islamic year, a worksheet to record the timing of how and when Muslims participate in a special Islamic festival, a template to write a recount to describe how and when Muslims observe Ramadan and a vocabulary word bank to select adverbials of time to use when writing a recount.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a recount to describe how Muslims observe the festival of Ramadan as part of their religion.

This lesson is part of a religious education scheme of work to get the children to explore some of the different traditions, stories, beliefs and practices that Muslims follow and adopt when practising the Islamic religion. 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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