Key Stage One : English : Extra : Family Fireworks : Lesson Four – Bonfire Night


This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and use vocabulary to describe sights and sounds that might be experienced on the fifth of November. The class can practise using a template to structure and format the lines in their poem with the selected descriptive vocabulary.

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Learning Objectives

Drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher. Select and use vocabulary to describe sights and sounds in poetry.

Learning Outcomes

I can use experience and discussion to select vocabulary to describe what happens somewhere. I can select vocabulary to use when describing different nouns in poetry.

Bonfire Night

Teaching sequence to help the children select and use vocabulary to describe sights and sounds that might be experienced on the fifth of November

Family Fireworks

Shared reading text to help the children identify vocabulary used to describe colours, shapes and sounds of fireworks in a poem about Bonfire Night

Fireworks

Word bank to help the children select special vocabulary to use in a poem describing colours, shapes and sounds of fireworks

Family Fireworks (support)

Template to help the children select vocabulary to use when composing lines for a poem describing the sights and sounds of fireworks

Bonfire Night

Interactive activity to help the children select and use vocabulary to describe sights and sounds that might be experienced on the fifth of November

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and use vocabulary to describe sights and sounds that might be experienced on the fifth of November

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