Lesson One – Four Gospels

This religious education teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify, describe and compare how stories about the life of Jesus are presented in each of the Four Gospels in the New Testament.

The class can practise using drama to illustrate some of the differences between how an event in the life of Jesus is shown in the different gospels by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and compare how stories about the life of Jesus are presented in each of the Four Gospels in the New Testament

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to compare how a story about the baptism of Jesus is presented in each of the Four Gospels and a worksheet to compare and record how a story about the life of Jesus is recorded and illustrated in the Gospels by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to compare ways that stories about the life of Jesus are presented in each of the Four Gospels.

This lesson is part of a religious education scheme of work to get the children to investigate how the story of Jesus and the development of Christianity is presented in the New Testament including the idea that Jesus brought light into the world. 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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