Tales of Ancient Egypt English Pack

#TheCompleteEnglishPack20lessons

This 'Tales of Ancient Egypt' English planning pack includes 20 ready-to-teach lessons. Each lesson comes with the lesson plan, teaching input slides and printable resources, giving you everything you need to deliver these engaging and inspiring Ancient Egyptian lessons to your Year 3 class.

Please be aware that, for copyright purposes, we are unable to provide the full text for the Narrative strand of this pack. Extracts are provided where appropriate.

#AllNARRATIVELessonsinPack

This Egyptian Cinderella planning pack for Year 3 links perfectly with a cross-curricular topic on Ancient Egypt for KS2. Challenge your class to write a story about ancient Egypt after reading and exploring the story of ‘The Egyptian Cinderella’ by Shirley Climo. Discuss and investigate the familiar fairy tale with the children and search for similarities and differences between the two versions of the same story. Inspire your students to create their own Egyptian versions of chosen fairy tales using aspects they have discussed from the model text.

This ready-to-use Egyptian Cinderella planning pack comes with lesson plans, lesson slides and printable resources to give you (almost!) everything you need to teach your class to write their own Egyptian fairy tales.

Please be aware that, for copyright purposes, we are unable to provide the full text for this scheme of work. Extracts are provided where appropriate. 

#AllEXPLANATIONTEXTSLessonsinPack

This complete Ancient Egypt Explanation Text KS2 planning pack would be perfect to use as one of your Ancient Egyptian day activities. Based around learning the stages of mummification, this four-lesson scheme of work includes instructions on how to mummify a tomato and encourages your KS2 class to analyse and improve the instructions. They use their learning to make links to the Ancient Egyptian mummification process before writing an explanation text for your school's blog or newsletter to explain the process to the readers.

Including all the lesson plans, activity ideas, ready-to-use lesson input slides and printable resources, this explanation text planning pack has everything you need to produce some purposeful and effective explanation texts with your Year 3 class.

#AllBIOGRAPHIESLessonsinPack

This Biographies KS2 planning pack includes four ready-to-teach lesson plans, complete with lesson slides and printable resources. This sequence of lessons provides your class with opportunities to explore biography text features and have a go at writing different biographies. Their final piece of writing will be a biography on the life of Cleopatra VII and her rule as the last Ptolemaic Pharaoh before the Ancient Egyptian era ended.

#AllNEWSPAPERSLessonsinPack

Terrible news! The beloved Pharaoh Cleopatra has been found dead. It is your class's job to write a newspaper report about her death using the facts and information they gather in this set of two complete lessons. This Newspaper Reports KS2 Planning Pack comes with the teaching input slides, lesson plans and supporting printable resources, including a model text.

In each lesson your Year 3 class will be guided to write their own report on the death of Cleopatra. They will be encouraged to organise their writing into clear paragraphs as well as using a variety of sentence openers to keep their writing clear and interesting to read.

#AllPOETRYLessonsinPack

This complete Ancient Egyptian Poetry KS2 planning pack comes with all you need to teach your Year 3 class about a range of different poetry. With the lesson ideas in this scheme, your KS2 class will investigate acrostic poetry, kennings and free verse poems. The teaching input slides help you to guide the children in generating poetic language and ideas for their poems as well as the steps they need to take to create their own Ancient-Egyptian-themed poetry.

#Lesson1NarrativeTheEgyptianCinderella

This Egyptian Cinderella lesson plan pack introduces your Year 3 class to the story of The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo. As you read through the story together, your KS2 children will have the chance to discuss the plot, characters and setting.

During their independent learning time, they can then explore the characters' motives, thoughts and feelings as they answer comprehension questions on the story. Alternatively, give the children the opportunity to explore these aspects of the story through role-play and freeze frames using the accompanying printable resources.

This Egyptian Cinderella lesson plan pack comes with everything you need to deliver this fun and engaging lesson, including a plan, a set of slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable teaching resources.

#Lesson2NarrativeComparingStories

Challenge your class to compare a more traditional story of Cinderella with the Ancient Egyptian story you have read as a class. Discuss the similarities and differences between the two stories, including which key aspects of the story are important to keep in order to say that a it’s a ‘Cinderella story’.

Use the lesson slides and printable resources, including a pre-prepared storyboard of ‘The Egyptian Cinderella’ and differentiated worksheets to help your class analyse and compare these two similar stories.

#Lesson3NarrativeRetellingAStory

This Retelling a Story lesson plan and accompanying printable resources is perfect to get your KS2 class confident in retelling fairy tales and other familiar stories.

Use the included teaching input slides to share some traditional fairy tales with your class and discuss the main events and characters in each story. Give your children the opportunity to discuss how we can use storyboards and story maps to help retell the most important events and characters in a story. Alternatively, get them up out of their seats and using drama to retell the story, pausing to freeze frame, photograph and discuss important events in the story.

This Retelling a Story lesson plan pack will have your KS2 children putting an ancient Egyptian twist on a familiar story or fairy tale – and it's all ready and waiting for you to download and teach!

#Lesson4NarrativePlanning

Continue your class's development of comparing different versions of stories using the complete lesson plan, slides and printable resources which come with this ready-to-teach Literacy lesson from PlanBee.

Challenge your Year 3 class to pull together ideas to create their own Egyptian version by exploring the different ways 'The Egyptian Cinderella' was set in Ancient Egypt. Allow them to get their creative juices flowing as they share ideas and plan out their story, ready to be written out next lesson.

#Lesson5NarrativeFrontedAdverbials

This Fronted Adverbial Year 3 lesson explores the use and effects of fronted adverbials in a narrative setting. Beginning with looking at adverbs and adverbials, the included slideshow for the teaching input discusses how placing the adverbial at the 'front' of the sentence can create a different effect on the reader.

Discuss the placement of the adverbials they want to use in the sentences they create and help them discuss which they prefer and why.

#Lesson6NarrativeWritingAncientEgyptianStories

This Ancient Egyptian Stories KS2 English lesson gives your Year 3 class the chance to put all their learning into action as they use all of the discussions, planning and learning from the previous lessons to write a story about Ancient Egypt, based on the story of 'The Egyptian Cinderella'.

The children are guided through their use of fronted adverbials in narrative writing and encouraged to use supporting printable resources to help them choose the most effective adverbials for their needs. They will also have the chance to put their editing hats on as they focus on one aspect of their Ancient Egyptian fairy tales at a time to edit and improve their writing, aided by the provided editing cards.

This Ancient Egyptian Stories KS2 planning pack contains all the teaching resources you need to deliver this lesson, including a detailed lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable teaching resources.

#Lesson7ExplanationTextsStagesofMummification

The first lesson in this Ancient Egypt Explanation Text planning pack challenges your Year 3 class to make links between the Ancient Egyptian process of mummification with the process of mummifying a tomato. The children will use the included teaching input slides and printable resources to investigate the key steps in each of them and explain why they are important to the process of mummification. Children are encouraged to use their previous learning and discussions from the lesson to help them explain the links between the steps.

#Lesson8ExplanationTextsMummifyingaTomato

Challenge your Year 3 class to edit, improve or write their own instructions on how to mummify a tomato using this complete Ancient Egypt activity planning pack. Explore what makes effective instructions using the included lesson input slides before allowing the class to use natron to create their own mummified fruit. This mummification KS2 lesson plan comes with a detailed activities with accompanying printable resources, including comprehensive instructions for the teacher.

#Lesson9ExplanationTextsAnalysingNewslettersandBlogs

Teach your Year 3 class the techniques and features they will need with this writing a blog lesson plan. Use the provided model texts of a primary school newsletter and blog to identify important linguistic and structural features of these kinds of writing and pick out the ones that they could apply to their own writing in the next lesson. Designed to inspire rich discussion and analysis of a model text, the teaching input slides guide your class through identifying and exploring how they can create a friendly and informative explanation piece for a blog or newsletter.

#Lesson10ExplanationTextsBlogsandNewsletters

This final lesson in this Explanation Text KS2 lesson pack guides your class in structuring and writing their own explanation text which could be used in the school's newsletter or blog. Using the teaching input slides, you can discuss the audience and what they should include in their writing to make it effective. Then, supported by the printable resources, your Year 3 class can create and edit their first draft of an explanation text about mummification.

#Lesson11BiographiesFeaturesofaBiography

This Features of a Biography KS2 lesson plan comes with everything you need to help your Year 3 class explore examples of biographies in order to find common features of this genre. Your class will have the opportunity to think about why a biography might be written and who would read this genre of writing, before having a go at writing a biography of Howard Carter or a partner. The children will need to think carefully about the information one needs in order to write a successful biography.

#Lesson12BiographiesOrganisingParagraphs

Use this ready-to-teach lesson plan, slides and printable resources to help you when teaching paragraphs to your Year 3 class. This Paragraphs KS2 lesson will explore how they are used in a nonfiction context to group together information around a topic or theme. The lesson links the use of paragraphs with subheadings and how they can summarise the information of each section of their biographies. The children have the opportunity to practise organising information about Tutankhamun into paragraphs and choose subheadings which would suit a biographical piece of writing.

#Lesson13BiographiesCleopatraFacts

Introduce your class to the last Egyptian Pharaoh using this Cleopatra KS2 lesson plan and accompanying slides and resources. Have your class find out who she was and why she has become so famous as an Egyptian ruler, as they are challenged to sort facts about her life in preparation for writing a biography on this influential leader. Use the included teaching input slides to discuss her achievements and relationships as well as discussing how her life may have affected the Egyptian people. Learn about her relationships and alliances with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony and how they helped her become a powerful leader.

#Lesson14BiographiesWritingCleopatrasBiography

Bring your class's learning together in this final lesson in which they are expected to write a biography about Cleopatra VII. They will need to incorporate the facts they have learnt about the famous Egyptian Pharaoh as well as the features of a biography which they studied in lesson one of this scheme. Using the supporting resources included in this Cleopatra biography lesson pack, the children can create a successful piece of non-fiction writing using paragraphs and subheadings.

#Lesson15NewspapersDeathofCleopatra

Turn your Year 3 class into investigative reporters as they try to gather as much information on Pharaoh Cleopatra's death as they can before they attempt to write a report on the incident. Using the teaching input slides, you can inspire discussion about the lead-up to and consequences of Cleopatra's death, before the children begin to organise what they have found out into relevant paragraphs. The supporting printable resources which come in this Newspaper Reports KS2 Planning Pack offer relevant fact cards which the children can use to organise their plan for the newspaper report they will be writing in the following lesson.

#Lesson16NewspapersWritingaNewsReport

Using the information gathered in the previous lesson, your class of Ancient Egyptian reporters are challenged to write a news report on the death of Cleopatra. Provided in the printable resources, the model text offers your KS2 class the chance to investigate an example of a newspaper report to identify key features. The teaching input slides offer the opportunity for the children to discuss the features, focusing on the varied sentence openers and how they affect how the article is read.

#Lesson17PoetryGeneratingPoeticLanguage

This Year 3 poetry planning lesson provides you with everything you will need to help your KS2 class generate and discuss poetic devices and language. In preparation for writing Ancient-Egyptian-themed poetry, the lesson slides and printable resources will help guide your class in generating themed language to use when writing poems in the following lesson. They will discuss different poetic devices, focusing on repetition, alliteration and similes, which will then be used in the later lessons in this scheme.

#Lesson18PoetryAncientEgyptAcrosticPoems

This Ancient Egypt Acrostic Poems lesson pack will challenge your Year 3 class to write their own Ancient Egypt acrostic poems.

Using the accompanying resources, the children will explore an example poem and identify features of the poem which they like. They are encouraged to spot alliteration in the example and then use this poetic device in their own poem. They will use the language and vocabulary that they generated in the previous lesson to build up their poems and are challenged to attempt different types of acrostic poems in the Fancy Something Different task.

This Ancient Egypt Acrostic Poems lesson comes fully prepared and ready to teach. There's an easy-to-follow lesson plan with differentiation, a slideshow for the teaching input and a range of printable teaching resources to support your class as they write their own ancient Egyptian acrostics.

#Lesson19PoetryAncientEgyptianKenningPoems

This kenning poems KS2 lesson plan introduces your Year 3 class to kennings and how they're written. They focus on the spelling rule of adding -er to verbs to make nouns and using this to help them create a riddle poem. Using the supporting resources, the children choose an aspect of Ancient Egypt they would like to write about and use their learning to create metaphorical descriptions of their chosen subject.

#Lesson20PoetryEgyptianFreeVersePoetry

In this free verse poetry KS2 lesson your Year 3 class are challenged to abandon the structural rules for different types of poetry and try their hand at a free verse poem themed around Ancient Egypt.

The children can use the provided example of a free verse poem to practise how these types of poems can be performed, using tone, intonation and pauses to add emphasis to words and phrases. Using the teaching input slides, they will have the opportunity to discuss the poet's choices about line length and poetic devices used in the poem before attempting to recreate this in their own Ancient Egyptian poem.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
• increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally
• identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books
• preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action
• discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
• recognising some different forms of poetry [for example, free verse, narrative poetry]
• checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context
• drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
• predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
• identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these
• retrieve and record information from non-fiction
• participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say

• discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
• discussing and recording ideas
• organising paragraphs around a theme
• in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot
• in non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices [for example, headings and sub-headings]
• assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
• read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear

• using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause
• using fronted adverbials
• using commas after fronted adverbials

• Expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions [for example, when, before, after, while, so, because], adverbs [for example, then, next, soon, therefore], or prepositions [for example, before, after, during, in, because of]
• Introduction to paragraphs as a way to group related material
• Headings and sub-headings to aid presentation