Following instructions

In English this week, we have started to look at instruction writing. To understand how important it is for instructions to be clear, the children first followed a set of instructions to draw a picture which were read aloud by Miss Leins. They all did this amazingly well and we looked at each other’s drawings to see how similar (or slightly different) they were having followed the same set of instructions.

The children then took it in turns with their partner to give their own instructions to draw a picture. They tried to use time adverbs to begin each step and adverbs to give extra detail. Here are some photos of them in action…

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