Key Stage One : English : Extra : Witch’s Cauldron : Lesson Three – Potion Ingredients


This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and use adjectives to describe ingredients used by a witch when making a potion for a spell. The class can practise writing expanded noun phrases to describe different potion ingredients.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and use adjectives to describe ingredients used by a witch when making a potion for a spell

Learning Objectives

Writing down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary. Learn how to use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify.

Learning Outcomes

I can make a list of adjectives that can be used to describe things. I can write expanded nouns phrases to describe and specify something.

Potion Ingredients

Teaching sequence to help the children select and use adjectives to describe ingredients used by a witch when making a potion for a spell

Potion Ingredients

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children identify adjectives that can be used to describe ingredients used in a potion

Potion Words

Activity to help the children select adjectives to describe ingredients that can be used by a witch when making a potion for a spell

Potion Words (support)

Activity to help the children match adjectives to describe ingredients that can be used by a witch when making a potion for a spell

Potion Ingredients

Interactive activity to help the children select and use adjectives to describe ingredients used by a witch when making a potion for a spell

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and use adjectives to describe ingredients used by a witch when making a potion for a spell

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