These activities are designed to build upon children’s existing vocabulary and to introduce them to new vocabulary. The worksheet follows 3 parts. The first part focuses on children finding words that they do not understand or words that they feel are WOW! The second part is where children select some words from their spider diagram and find the definition using a dictionary. The final part gets children to use their new words in a sentence. This can be adapted through either a paragraph or sentence depending ability.

Find out how slavery was abolished in the UK and why it took so long. Includes a Power Point and a task at the end for pupils to complete. The activity enables the children to explain why slavery was abolished and why the people being discussed were so influential in the abolishment of slavery.