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This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to read and write a set of instructions about how to win a race at the Olympic Games. The class can explain how to format and structure instructional writing using commands at the start of each sentence to compel the reader to perform an action.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to read and write a set of instructions about how to win a race at the Olympic Games

Learning Objectives

Being introduced to non-fiction books that are structured in different ways. Write a set of instructions to perform a specific task.

Learning Outcomes

I can say how to format and structure a set of instructions. I can write sentences that are commands in a text.

Winning Gold

Teaching sequence to help the children read and write a set of instructions about how to win a race at the Olympic Games

Hurdles Race

Shared reading text to help the children identify and explain how to write a set of instructions about how to win a race at the Olympic Games

Races and Games

Activity to get the children to select and record verbs that can be used to describe how to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games

Swimming Race

Activity cards to help the children select and sequence a set of instructions into the correct order about how to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games

Winning Gold

Interactive activity to help the children read and write a set of instructions about how to win a race at the Olympic Games

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to read and write a set of instructions about how to win a race at the Olympic Games

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