Key Stage One : English : Extra : Witch’s Cauldron


This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and write sets of instructions for witch’s to follow when making a range of potions for casting different spells. The class can use the conjunction and to list pairs of ingredients for potions. The children can write expanded noun phrases to describe ingredients.

Select and write sets of instructions for witch’s to follow when making a range of potions for casting different spells

Lesson One : Potions and Spells

Identify how a witch might use a range of potions to cast different spells using conjunctions to link sentence clauses

Lesson Two : Witch’s Kitchen

Practise using the conjunction and to co-ordinate sentence clauses about things a witch might use when making a potion

Lesson Three : Potion Ingredients

Select and use adjectives to describe ingredients used by a witch when making a potion for a spell

Lesson Four : Potion Recipe

Sequence and adapt a set of instructions about how to make a potion to cast a spell

Lesson Five : Cauldron Potion

Select and compose a set of instructions about how to make a potion to cast a spell

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