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English - KS1

Words from a Window

Location
Classroom
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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