Christmas Story Writing Week 1 KS2

The first week of a 2 week Christmas story unit for KS2. This pack includes 5 PowerPoints to lead you through the learning sequence, modelled texts to inspire and support, a variety of activities to keep the pupils focused and all resources and plan included to save time.

Read the Scandinavian Christmas story about a creature who is similar to Father Christmas, but different. Explore the story with the pupils and help them to plan a similar story, to write the following week (see links below).

The story has been written to include essential writing skills for year 5 such as relative clauses, parenthesis, powerful description, sentence openers and conjunctions. This unit could easily be adapted for other KS2 year groups.

Enjoy teaching the well planned writing activities for each day, activities designed to suit a variety of learners. Short games, quizzes and videos are provided for starter activities and all challenges and plenaries are included.

KS2 Writing Teaching Points Covered:

• Editing and improving example sentences,
• Using relative clauses,
• Accurate speech punctuation,
• Comparing setting descriptions,
• Highlighting writing techniques (relative clauses, sentence openers, adjectives, personification, parenthesis and conjunctions)
• Adding in adverbs,
• Using similes and metaphors,
• Expanded noun phrases.

Engage your pupils with Christmas and develop their writing with these high quality PowerPoints. Each day use the modelled texts to capture their imagination, expand their vocabulary and teach them new skills for KS2. Enhance their progress whilst exploring Scandinavian culture.

Check out Week 2 of this unit by clicking here where the children are guided to write their own version of the story.

Or grab a bargain and buy both Christmas Story Writing weeks by clicking here for a Christmas Unit Bundle

All reviews welcome.

For high quality cross curricular units on Scandinavia follow the links below:

• Scandinavia Geography Unit
• Scandinavia Art unit