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Lesson One – Santa’s Postcards

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and select vocabulary to describe different places visited by Santa Claus. The class can use the five senses to produce list of words that can be used to describe a specific holiday location. that Santa might visit.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and select vocabulary to describe different places visited by Santa Claus

Learning Objectives

Discussing word meanings, linking new meanings to those already known. Drawing on what they already know or on background information.

Learning Outcomes

I can match vocabulary in a text to a specific location. I can use what I know and what I have read to find words to describe a location.

Santa’s Postcards

Teaching sequence to help the children identify and select vocabulary to describe different places visited by Santa Claus

Dear Rudolph

Shared reading text to help the children identify and describe vocabulary that can be used to describe different locations that Santa could visit on holiday

Postcard Words

Template to help the children select and record vocabulary to describe different holiday locations using the five senses

Santa’s Postcards

Interactive activity to help the children identify and select vocabulary to describe different places visited by Santa Claus

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and select vocabulary to describe different places visited by Santa Claus

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