Use the outdoors to your advantage when planning and teaching your English lessons. Let nature be your inspiration while encouraging creative writing, reading, oral language and vocabulary development.
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This A - to - Z list allows your pupils to record what they see, touch, hear on their way to and from school every day. Help to build literacy skills while encouraging them to be present and mindful in their environment.
Resource provided by the UK Learning through Landscapes initiative.
Use these pages to support the creative writing process. Get outdoors to look for inspiration, jot down ideas, begin to develop setting and character, before planning the story and eventually writing.
View full descriptionTake your class outside and look for inspiration to complete 3 short Acrostic Poems: Tree, WInd and Sun. Brainstorm and come up with poems in groups or individually.
View full descriptionGet your class interested in nature and the outdoors. Help them to plant their own sunflowers, track their growth and bring the lesson back to the classroom with the sunflower comprehension.
View full descriptionStrand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Suggestions for use: Learn interesting facts about sunflowers. Plant your own individually or in groups. Track their progress using the worksheet attached.
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