Updated: 14 Sep 2023
A cloze activity to use when learning about the layers of the Earth and plate tectonics.
Editable: Word
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 2 Pages
Years: 5 - 6
Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanningElaborationsbringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge...
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Sudden geological changes and extreme weather events can affect Earth's surface
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Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
Explains regular events in the solar system and geological events on the Earth's surface
Explains regular events in the solar system and geological events on the Earth's surface
Navigate and read imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by interpreting structural features, including tables of content, glossaries, chapters, headings and subheadings and applying appropriate text processing strategies, including monitoring...
Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth's surface
Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth’s surface
A cloze activity to use when learning about the layers of the Earth and plate tectonics.
Students use the word bank to fill in the blank spaces in the cloze passage about the layers of the Earth and plate tectonics. An answer sheet for teachers is provided.
Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanningElaborationsbringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge...
Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadingsElaborationsbringing subject and...
Sudden geological changes and extreme weather events can affect Earth's surface
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
Explains regular events in the solar system and geological events on the Earth's surface
Explains regular events in the solar system and geological events on the Earth's surface
Navigate and read imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by interpreting structural features, including tables of content, glossaries, chapters, headings and subheadings and applying appropriate text processing strategies, including monitoring...
Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth's surface
Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth’s surface
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Lesson 2, Plate Tectonic Activity is no longer available on the BBC bitesize website, any recommendations of what i can use instead?