Active Learning - English
Resources to get your pupils moving while building English skills.
Summary
This pack contains activities to get pupils on their feet and actively engaged in putting their English skills into practice.
Pupils will be able to:
- give and follow instructions to carry out short physical actions
- develop their vocabulary and practice using adjectives to describe a given noun.
Curriculum links
England: English (Key Stage 2)
Wales: Languages, Literacy and Communication (Progression Steps 2 and 3)
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Active English (Year 1): Be the coach!
This activity allows pupils to practise their listening and speaking skills by giving and following instructions to carry out physical actions.
Active English (Year 2): Finding and doing
In this activity, pupils build their understanding of nouns, verbs and adjectives through the acts of "finding" and "doing".
Active English (Year 3-4): Adjective circle
This activity involves pupils calling out adjectives to describe objects, people and actions and sport.
Active English (Year 6): Quick words
This activity helps pupils to build their vocabulary by asking them to think on their feet to come up with the most creative word containing two given letters.