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Learning Outcomes
To be able to use expanded noun phrases to describe, and differentiate between, different settings.
Duration
1 hour
Overview
In this lesson students will use the view from train windows as the stimulus for building descriptions.
From countryside to cities, and from sprawling fields to rivers, this lesson asks students to imagine themselves as the passenger and use their growing knowledge of nouns and adjectives to recreate the view for a reader.
Curriculum Links
KS1 Literacy
- consider what they are going to write before beginning.
- encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence.
- learn how to use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify.
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How to get there
This lesson is designed to be taught in a classroom. However, if you would like to take a train trip with your class, please use either of the options below to help plan your journey.