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Instruction Writing – Invent A Game
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Instruction Writing – Invent A Game

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Inventing an outdoor game is a great way for your class to develop their instruction writing skills as part of your non-fiction topic. They’ll first look at an example set of instructions in the form of a memory game, studying the different features of instruction writing before planning and writing a set of instructions for their own game that they can test out on their friends. **Contents: ** Teacher Guide Instruction Writing Checklist Instruction Example (Memory Game) Differentiated Mind maps Differentiated Writing Templates Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know your thoughts. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Adverb Worksheets, Activities, and Game Bundle
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Adverb Worksheets, Activities, and Game Bundle

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Adverbs: Complete Bundle (Worksheets / Activities, PowerPoint Game, Adverbs Acting) - Everything you need to introduce or recap adverbs in a fun an entertaining way that your children will love! Teaching adverbs is easy with this one stop bundle of worksheets, activities, games and PowerPoint. Products Included: ----------------------------------- Adverbs: PowerPoint Game - This PowerPoint game is a fantastic and fun way to introduce or recap adverbs for your class. It consists of two interactive and entertaining games where the children will discover what an adverb is and why they are important, learning to recognise them within sentences. Contents: - Slide 1 – 4: Introduction to the game / adverbs - Slide 5 – 40: Game 1 – Deciding whether the given words are an adverb or not - Slide 41 – 54: Game 2 – Finding adverbs within the sentence ----------------------------------- Adverbs: Worksheets / Activities - These differentiated worksheets / activities will help your children practise recognising and using adverbs in a fun and practical way. They will learn that adverbs give the reader more detail by modifying the verb. This is a great resource for the review and introduction of adverbs. Enjoy! Contents: - 1 x Adverb Search: Finding adverbs within the sentence (highlighting) - 2 x Sort It: Sorting adverbs from adjectives and their types (cut and stick) - 1 x Fix The Sentence: Inserting adverbs into sentences (cut and stick) - 2 x Space Trip: Inserting adverbs into sentences (written) - 4 x Use That Adverbs: Writing sentences using adverbs (written) - 1 x Board Game: Saying sentences containing adverbs - Answer Key ----------------------------------- Adverbs: Adverb Acting:This game is played like charades. It is a great fun and a practical way for children to learn that adverbs modify verbs. There are 30 adverb cards (mostly of manner ending in 'ly') with each card containing ideas as to how they could act out the adverb. This game can be played in groups, pairs or as a whole class. Contents: - 4 x Box Decorations - 30 x Adverb Cards - 2 x Differentiated Record Sheets My children absolutely love this game and are always asking to play it!
Spring Poetry Scrapbook, Help Cards, and PowerPoint Bundle
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Spring Poetry Scrapbook, Help Cards, and PowerPoint Bundle

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This poetry bundle is a refreshing way to teach poetry through the outdoors. It is designed to get your children into the outdoors exploring poetry through their senses while encouraging a rich use of language. It contains the following products: Spring Poetry Scrapbook This poetry scrapbook is the perfect way to get your class exploring the outdoors while letting their creative juices flow in the form of poetry. They each get their own personal scrapbook where they are required to think about what language they can use to describe specific things before putting their thoughts into a poem. This scrapbook gives the children the opportunity to write acrostic, quatrain, and couplet poems along with another, which they can choose. I have used this pack with great success in spring and summer where we would spend Friday afternoons going out to write poetry, however I am excited to have a go at it in winter too! It is very therapeutic for both the children and the teacher. Contents: - Scrapbook cover - Blank scrapbook cover (where they can draw their own) - ‘Beautiful Birds’ language ideas - ‘Beautiful Birds’ acrostic poem sheet - ‘Magical Mini-Beasts’ language ideas - ‘Magical Mini-Beats’ quatrain poem sheet (aabb rhyming pattern) - ‘Vibrant Views’ language ideas - ‘Vibrant Views’ quatrain poem sheet (abab rhyming pattern) - ‘Wonderful Weather’ language ideas - ‘Wonderful Weather’ couplet poem sheet - Free poem sheet (the children choose the form and subject for their poem) ----------------------------------- Poetry Introduction PowerPoint A fun interactive PowerPoint designed to give your class an introduction into the wonderful world of poetry. This PowerPoint will teach your children the technical vocabulary, creative language used, and different poetry forms. Contents: - Slides 1 - 4: What is poetry - Slides 5 – 7: Vocabulary - Slides 8 – 26: Simile, personification, or metaphor game - Slides 27 – 36: Poetry forms - Slide 37 – Scrapbook follow up ------------------------ Poetry Help Cards Six poetry scheme help cards that explain what the scheme is and then gives an example. They are great to have available to your children for them to use when writing poems or as a way to differentiate. Poetry rhyming schemes: - Acrostic - Couplet - Quatrain (aaaa) - Quatrain (aabb) - Quatrain (abab) - Quatrain (abca) ------------------------
Classroom Management One Stop Bundle
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Classroom Management One Stop Bundle

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This is your one stop bundle for everything you need for effective classroom management! This huge bundle is perfect if you are starting a new school or want to revamp your classroom management containing resources to allow your classroom to run smoothly! It fits in nicely with cooperative learning and growth mind-set. We have implemented all of these is my classroom and it has made such a big difference! This pack consists of the following resources: Group Roles Badges and Job Plates Group roles badges and plates that allow you to easily structure cooperative learning / group work so that each child has a specific responsibility that is crucial to their success. This pack includes role plates for the tables as well as badges that they can wear around their neck while taking part in the group work both with descriptions of what the role duties are. The five roles are: - Agent Manager - Agent Time Manager - Agent Volume - Agent Materials Manager - Agent Encourager When children have a specific role that they are responsible for they seem to be much more focused and more involved in their learning. I normally change the roles each time they do group work so that every child experiences each role. Contents: - 5 x job plates with descriptions - 5 x double sided job badges with descriptions ------------------------ Classroom Management: Self Help Poster and Bookmark This resource is used to help children to become more independent learners. Do you wish your children would think for themselves and know what to do when they don’t know what to do, well this is the resource for you! We decided we needed to try help our children become more independent, so we gave each of them a bookmark which goes through a checklist as to what they should do if they get stuck as well as putting the poster up in the classroom. It has saved us hours of our time! Contents: - 1 x Poster - 1 x bookmark ------------------------ Classroom Management: Table Jobs / Duties This is a great resource for classroom management, and the children love it too! The pack contains 6 table job / duty plates so that each child on the table has a specific responsibility which will not only aid their learning, but help the classroom run smoothly. Each plate contains instructions on the back to help the children understand what the responsibility involves. Contents: 1 x Head Captain 1 x Vice Captain 1 x Captain Focus 1 x Captain Volume 1 x Captain Tidy 1 x Captain Collector 1 x Table Job Record Sheet We noticed a big different in the children’s behaviour and work quality after introducing these responsibilities. We hope you find them as helpful as we do! ------------------------ Classroom Management: Reward Vouchers These classroom management reward vouchers are a perfect addition to any behaviour system. They are a low cost resource that the children love! Simply print and laminate the vouchers and give them to your children who are working hard or showing good behaviour for them to redeem at an appropriate time. There are 22 vouchers levelled from 1 – 3, 3 being the best rewards and should be used as a rarity. You can either let your children choose which reward voucher they want (from the correct level) or have a lucky dip system in place. I have noticed a huge difference in my class since introducing these vouchers. They have worked magic for me! Contents: Level 1: - Pillow Time: Sit on a pillow for half a day - Chair Half Day: Sit on the special chair for half a day - Pick A Pen: Choose one of the special pens to write with all day - Story Picker: Choose a story for the teacher to read to the class - Wear A Hat: Wear your favourite hat to school for a day - Any Job You Want: Choose a class job to do for the day Level 2: - Extra Recess: You get 2 minutes extra recess - Board Artist: Use the whiteboard as your canvas, get creative! - Sit By A Friend: Sit by a friend for 1 lesson - Game Master: Pick a game for the class to play at the end of the day - Extra Tech: 5 minutes extra computer or tech time - Toy From Home: Bring in a toy from home to play with during recess - Pillow Time: Sit on a pillow for a day - Chair Day: Sit on the special chair for a day - Desk Upgrade: Use the teacher’s desk for a lesson - Reading Break: Take 5 minutes, have a relax, and read a book Level 3: - Extra Recess: You get 5 minutes extra recess - Call Home: Your teacher will phone your parents to tell them that you’re a super star - Sit By A Friend: Sit by a friend for 1 day - Extra Tech: 10 minutes extra computer or tech time - Mystery Box: Take a lucky dip from the box - Table Treat: Your whole table gets 2 minutes extra recess I hope your class enjoy this as much as mine have! ------------------------ Classroom Management: Effort Thermometer This is a great classroom management resource / display which was created to help children think about how much effort they are putting into their learning. They must move their name-tag on the thermometer according to how much effort they are putting in. It fits in well with Growth Mindset. It can be used in a few ways. Self Reflection: At the end of or during a lesson the children place their name-tag onto the effortometer depending on how much effort they think they are putting in. Teachers Assessment: During the lesson the teacher can move names around depending on how they are working. I sometimes give a reward token (see our store) if a child reaches the top of the scale. This has made a huge difference in my class as children are starting to become aware of what they are capable of. I hope it does the same for you! ------------------------ Interactive Literacy Display & Help Cards: Improving Writing These display resources and help cards will help your children become more independent with improving their writing. Not only will this allow your children to take more independence over their learning and writing, it will also save you a ton of time as they use this display to improve, and continue improving! This pack consists of display resources and help cards for the following areas: - Adjectives - Adverbs - Connectives - Punctuation - Sentence Openers - Writing Checklist This display has worked wonders in my classroom, and I hope it does in yours too! -----------------------------------
Months Of The Year Word Search - Perfect For Distance Learning
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Months Of The Year Word Search - Perfect For Distance Learning

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This months of the year visual word search is a great way to reinforce or introduce your key vocabulary and help students learn the months. It’s great for morning work, filling activities, or just as some fun! Your class will learn the months in no time with the help of our fun visuals and word search. Key Vocabulary: January February March April May June July August September October November December Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Tree Poetry - Figurative Language Outdoor Activity
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Tree Poetry - Figurative Language Outdoor Activity

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This poetry and description activity is designed to get students thinking creatively about trees, looking at their features closely and starting to personify the trees. After thinking about different ways to describe their chosen tree they will write a poem using the description and imagery they came up with. ** Teaching structure:** Explain to the students that in pairs they will find their favorite tree and using clay make a face on the trunk. Bigger trunks create better faces! First, students design their tree face on the ‘design’ worksheet. - Once their face has been designed, they can create the face on the tree. They can then fill in the description sheets. Having a lesson on adjectives and metaphors / similes, and personification before this can be useful. Once they have completed their description sheets they can use this to help them write their poems. You can either ask them to focus on a specific form of poetry or let them choose. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Tree Adjectives - Outdoor Writing Freebie
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Tree Adjectives - Outdoor Writing Freebie

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This outdoor writing activity is great fun and a nice way to teach adjectives as well as introduce the idea of personification. Students will create their very own magical trees by using clay to make a face on their chosen trees trunk before drawing their tree and writing adjectives around the outside. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Nature Journal - Outdoor Writing - Descriptive Writing
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Nature Journal - Outdoor Writing - Descriptive Writing

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This creative outdoor writing activity gets students using their senses to describe the setting around them using a mixture of descriptive writing and drawing as they create their very own nature journals. Teaching Structure: Explain to the students that over the next few days / weeks they are going to use their senses to make their own nature journal to describe the settings in different outdoor areas. Go through the journal to check the students understand each section that they’re going to complete. There are three journal templates, one which is just for drawing, one for a little bit of writing and drawing, one for more advanced writers. Take the students outside to a specific place (or let them choose their own spots) and get them to complete a page of their journal. Do this on several different days (the more varied the setting and weather the better). Once they have several journal entries they can create their booklets using treasury tags or stapling them together. Give students time to share journals with each other. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Verbs In Action: Parts of Speech Outdoor Activity
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Verbs In Action: Parts of Speech Outdoor Activity

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These outdoor parts of speech verb task cards are a great way to get students recognizing and using action verbs. The activity works nicely as a starter or plenary to your verbs lesson and is designed to get students taking part in physical activity while learning about verbs. Put the class into pairs and give each a sentence card. One of the pair must read the sentence and point to / circle the verb, if their partner agrees they are correct, they must do the instruction given on the card. Once they’ve done it, they can swap their card with somebody else and let their partner have a turn. It’s good to let each pair go through a handful of cards before stopping the activity. If they are unsure of the correct answer, make sure they ask an adult for help before completing the instruction. This pack contains differentiated card levels. Green cards = Diff. 1 (1 verb per card). Blue cards = Diff. 2 (2 or more verbs per card). Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Fact And Opinion Race Cards - Sorting Activity
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Fact And Opinion Race Cards - Sorting Activity

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This is a fun and active way to get students thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions as part of your non-fiction texts topic. This resource contains animal and space themed task cards which the students need to sort into facts and opinions. There are two activities we enjoy using the cards for. Activity 1: Put students into teams of 4 or 5. In an open space, designate an area for facts and an area for opinions. Give each team a pack of cards and make them stand a good distance away from the designated fact / opinion areas (15 meters works nicely). Each team must take the top card and decide whether it’s a fact or opinion. Then one player must run and place the card in the correct zone before running back to their team. Once they’re back at their team they can discuss the next card and the next player can run to put it in the correct zone. Do this until all of the cards are in the correct zones. Activity 2: Designate an area for facts and an area for opinions (two sides of a playground work well). As you read out the task cards the students must decide whether it’s a fact or opinion and run to the correct area. If you want to turn this into a game, the last student to the correct zone is out. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
All About Adjectives: Outdoor Adjectives Activity FREEBIE
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All About Adjectives: Outdoor Adjectives Activity FREEBIE

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All about adjectives is an activity where students will find something they find interesting outside, draw it, and think of some adjectives to describe it using all of their five senses. This pack contains differentiated sheets as well as word banks to support those who need the extra help. It can be a great starter activity, plenary, or even whole lesson depending on the age of your students and their abilities. It’s important students have a basic understand as to what an adjective is before starting this activity. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Nature Rhymes & Poetry Outdoor Activity
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Nature Rhymes & Poetry Outdoor Activity

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Exploring the outdoors and rhyming go together perfectly. Your class will learn about word structures and rhyming while talking part in this fun physical activity. This activity will work best if you can give an input or lesson before taking the class outside. Once outside, each student / pair will find an object and write it in the first column of their table, for example, a tree. They’ll then go around and see if they can find another one or two things that rhyme with their original object. They can the repeat this until they’ve had a chance to find a few rhymes. This activity can be made more competitive by assigning rhymes points. Extension: Once they’ve got a good amount of rhymes they can use them to create their own poems using our templates provided. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Bugbook – Non-Fiction Writing Activity & Living Things
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Bugbook – Non-Fiction Writing Activity & Living Things

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Imagine if insects had a social media platform… well now they do! Your class will think like an insect and create a ‘bugbook’ page for their chosen insect. This is a great cross-curricular activity that will firstly get students looking at the features, habitats, and characteristics of insects in their outdoor space as well as practicing their non-fiction writing and research skills. It’s great when looking at description writing and non-fiction texts. You can also use this as a base to talk about internet safety using the question prompts provided. PSHE, science, and literacy all in one! Teaching Structure: Explain to your students that insects are getting social and love the new bugbook social media site. It’s their job to observe and research a chosen insect and make a bugbook profile for it. Share the example with them as a starting point to showcase the kind of things they may include. Get students to head outside, choose an insect they’d like to create a profile for and spend some time observing it, filling in as much of the research sheet as possible. They can then compete the sheet using the internet to research. Once the research sheet is complete they can create the insect’s profile using the templates provided. **Internet Safety: **Once they’ve completed their profiles, you can use the 10 internet safety question prompts to have a discussion with your class about the importance of being safe online. This could be done in small groups where each station is a different point outdoors. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Facts And Opinions Outdoor Writing Activity
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Facts And Opinions Outdoor Writing Activity

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This outdoor ‘facts and opinions’ activity is great as a starter or main activity for your non-fiction texts lesson. It will encourage them to think carefully about the differences between facts and opinions as they produce their own statements with about your outdoor area. Students will go to your outdoor area (this can also be done inside) and complete the table by writing facts in the left column and opinions in the right column about the area you are using. This activity is great when done both in pairs and individually. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Senses Poetry - Outdoor Writing Freebie
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Senses Poetry - Outdoor Writing Freebie

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This outdoor poetry activity gets students writing a simple poem about your outdoor space using their senses. Teaching Structure: Take the students into an outdoor space. Get them to sit quietly and think about what thy can see, hear, smell, touch, and feel. Once they’ve had time to think get them to write a poem by completing the differentiated poem templates. Along with the differentiated sheets, encourage students to use language in their poems appropriate to their ability. Once they’ve written their poems it is nice to share them together as a class. They can also make a great display! Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Fact or Opinion Cut and Stick Activity
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Fact or Opinion Cut and Stick Activity

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This animal themed activity gets your children thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions and is perfect for this non-fiction text topic. This is a no-prep cut and stick activity where students will read the statement, decide if it’s a fact or opinion, and stick it in the correct column. This pack has a fun animal theme with graphics for each statement. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Recipe For A Woodland Instruction Writing Activity
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Recipe For A Woodland Instruction Writing Activity

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This activity is designed to get students thinking about instruction writing while appreciating the world around them. It can easily be adapted to suite a wide age and ability range. Ages 4 – 6 Get students to go into your outdoor space / woodland area and draw something they really like about the area on ‘my favorite thing’ sheet (animals, plants, sky, etc.). Come back together as a group and discuss what they have chosen as their favorite thing. Explain to the students that you are going to use all of their favorite things to create a recipe for a woodland. This can be done together verbally or by writing a recipe on the board. Ages 7 – 9 Get students to go into your outdoor space / woodland area and draw / list all the things they like about the space on the ‘my favorite things’ sheet. Once you’re back in the classroom (or an appropriate space outside), explain that they’re going to write a recipe for their perfect woodland, using all the things they thought about while outside. At this point it’s good to show the students a variety of other recipes, getting them to highlight the key features. Once they are familiar with the key features, they can begin to write their recipe for the perfect woodland, using our prompt sheets to help if needed. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Space Themed Fact or Opinion Cut and Stick Activity
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Space Themed Fact or Opinion Cut and Stick Activity

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This space themed activity gets your children thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions and is perfect for this non-fiction text topic. This is a no-prep cut and stick activity where students will read the statement, decide if it’s a fact or opinion, and stick it in the correct column. This pack has a fun space theme with graphics for each statement. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Texture Explorer
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Texture Explorer

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This activity is all about students exploring different textures in the world around them. Don’t be afraid for students to get muddy for this activity! Explain to your class what the word ‘texture’ means and that they will be exploring all sorts of different textures in your outdoor space. Give them the table and go through each texture, giving them a chance to check they know the meaning of each one. Once they are ready, wearing clothes that can get a bit wet and muddy, get them to go outside and try to find each of the textures in the table, drawing or writing down their findings. Diff. 1 – Textures are already filled in on the table. Diff. 2 – To give students more of a challenge, they can fill in different textures they can think of before heading outside. For students who need more support, this activity can be done in small groups with adult support. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!
Onomatopoeia Poetry - Outdoor Writing Activity
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Onomatopoeia Poetry - Outdoor Writing Activity

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This activity gets students listening to the sounds of nature as well as creating their own sounds as they explore the world of onomatopoeias before creating their own onomatopoeia poetry. First, talk to the students about what an onomatopoeia is, sharing some examples of onomatopoeia poetry. Get them to highlight the onomatopoeias in the example poem. Students can illustrate this poem as a filler activity. Next, get students to go outside to listen to what noises they can hear in nature. Encourage them to create their own noises (hitting rocks together, stamping through leaves, etc.). While they’re outside they can complete the ‘Sound Hunt’ sheet, creating some onomatopoeia art. Once they have their list of onomatopoeias they can create their own poems, using the example to help them. This activity works great both individually and as pairs. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!