Key Stage One : English : Extra : Family Fireworks : Lesson Three – Firework Party


This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and record some of the special events that might happen during a family Bonfire party. The class can practise using special words to sequence sentences for a recount about a family party that might take place on Bonfire Night.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and record some of the special events that might happen during a family Bonfire party

Learning Objectives

Drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher. Sequencing sentences to form short narratives about an event.

Learning Outcomes

I can use experience and discussion to select vocabulary to describe what happens somewhere. I can sequence sentences to write the narrative for an event.

Firework Party

Teaching sequence to help the children select and record some of the special events that might happen during a family Bonfire party

Family Party

Shared reading text to help the children identify how to use special words to sequence events in a recount of a family party on Bonfire Night

Family Party

Activity to help the children select vocabulary to complete sentences to recount the sequence of events in a family party on Bonfire night

Family Party (support)

Activity cards to help the children sequence a set of sentences recounting events in a family party on Bonfire night

Firework Party

Interactive activity to help the children select and record some of the special events that might happen during a family Bonfire party

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and record some of the special events that might happen during a family Bonfire party

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