Lesson Four – Shepherds and Kings

This religious education teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and compose prayers that could have been recited by different characters as part of the Nativity story to reflect on what happened.

The class can use their completed prayers to produce hanging picture decorations which can be displayed around a nativity scene in the classroom.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and compose prayers that could have been recited by different characters as part of the Nativity story to reflect on what happened

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the sequence of events in a story from the Bible about the birth of Jesus and worksheets to compose a prayer that might have been spoken by one of the characters in the Nativity story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose prayers that could have been recited by different characters as part of the Nativity story.

This lesson is part of a RE and English scheme of work to get the children to explore and record some of the main events occurred surrounding the birth of Jesus by composing a range of different texts to sequence and illustrate what happened. 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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