This fun and creative adverbs activity helps students understand the difference between verbs and adverbs by combining learning with movement. In a large...
Persuasive Writing Lesson - Non-Fiction Text - Save The Weeds
In this engaging activity, your class is on a mission to save the weeds! Each student will adopt a weed, study it closely, and think about all the positive...
Story Writing Activity - Character Descriptive Writing - Adjectives
Get creative with nature by having students build characters using only natural materials found in your outdoor space, such as leaves, sticks, and stones....
This is a fun Christmas themed Literacy activity where your students will write treasure map instructions for their partner to find the Christmas present....
Senses Outdoor Activity - The Human Body - Smell Hunt - Adjectives
The smell hunt is an excellent activity for getting students to explore the wonderful scents that nature has to offer. It's perfect if you're studying...
Character Description Activity - Story Writing - Figurative Language (7 - 12)
This activity gets students to use their imagination to change things they can find outside into weird and wonderful creations. It can be used really effectively...
Character Description Activity - Story Writing - Figurative Language (4 - 6)
This activity gets students to use their imagination to change things they can find outside into weird and wonderful creations. It can be used really effectively...
This outdoor poetry activity encourages students to create sensory-based poems inspired by your outdoor space.
Teaching Structure:
Take students outside...
Fact and Opinion Activity - Race Cards- Non-Fiction Text
This is a fun and active way to get students thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions as part of your non-fiction texts topic....
Facts and Opinions Outdoor Writing Activity: Non-Fiction Text
This outdoor 'Facts and Opinions' activity is perfect as a starter or main exercise for lessons on non-fiction texts. It encourages students to think critically...
Exploring the outdoors and rhyming go together perfectly. Your class will learn about word structures and rhyming while talking part in this fun physical...
Fun Adjectives Activity - Descriptive Writing - All About Adjectives
This outdoor adjective lesson is a fun and engaging activity where students explore the outdoors, find something interesting, draw it, and use their five...
This resource is perfect for helping early writers start their very own nature journal! With three differentiated templates, this tool supports students...
Outdoor Adjectives Activity - Tree Adjectives - Personification
This outdoor writing activity is both engaging and a fun way to teach adjectives, while also introducing the concept of personification.
Students will...
Tree Poetry Lesson - Outdoor Writing - Descriptive Writing
This poetry and description activity is designed to get students thinking creatively about trees, looking at their features closely and starting to personify...
For this 'instructions' writing activity students will create a treasure hunt for their partner to follow. They will hide an object (name tag, stone with...
Instruction Writing Activity - Recipe For A Woodland
This activity is designed to get students thinking about instruction writing while appreciating the world around them. It can easily be adapted to suite...
For this activity students will create a map of your outdoor space imagining they are an animal that lives there. It is great if you’re looking at habitats,...
Inventing an outdoor game is an engaging and creative way for your class to enhance their instruction writing skills. Begin by introducing an example game,...
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English ~ Writing - Outdoor Lessons
Outdoor Lesson Ideas for Teachers
Adverbs Game -Listen and Act
This fun and creative adverbs activity helps students understand the difference between verbs and adverbs by combining learning with movement. In a large...
Premium Downloadages 7-9
Persuasive Writing Lesson - Non-Fiction Text - Save The Weeds
In this engaging activity, your class is on a mission to save the weeds! Each student will adopt a weed, study it closely, and think about all the positive...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Story Writing Activity - Character Descriptive Writing - Adjectives
Get creative with nature by having students build characters using only natural materials found in your outdoor space, such as leaves, sticks, and stones....
Premium Downloadages 4-6
Christmas Treasure Map - Instruction Writing
This is a fun Christmas themed Literacy activity where your students will write treasure map instructions for their partner to find the Christmas present....
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Senses Outdoor Activity - The Human Body - Smell Hunt - Adjectives
The smell hunt is an excellent activity for getting students to explore the wonderful scents that nature has to offer. It's perfect if you're studying...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Character Description Activity - Story Writing - Figurative Language (7 - 12)
This activity gets students to use their imagination to change things they can find outside into weird and wonderful creations. It can be used really effectively...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Character Description Activity - Story Writing - Figurative Language (4 - 6)
This activity gets students to use their imagination to change things they can find outside into weird and wonderful creations. It can be used really effectively...
Free Downloadages 4-6
Outdoor Poetry Activity - Senses Poetry
This outdoor poetry activity encourages students to create sensory-based poems inspired by your outdoor space. Teaching Structure: Take students outside...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9, 10-12
Fact and Opinion Activity - Race Cards- Non-Fiction Text
This is a fun and active way to get students thinking carefully about the difference between facts and opinions as part of your non-fiction texts topic....
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Facts and Opinions Outdoor Writing Activity: Non-Fiction Text
This outdoor 'Facts and Opinions' activity is perfect as a starter or main exercise for lessons on non-fiction texts. It encourages students to think critically...
Free Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Non-Fiction Writing Activity - Insects / Mini-Beasts
Imagine Insects on Social Media—Now They Can! Your class will dive into the world of insects by creating a ‘bugbook’ page for their chosen insect....
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Nature Rhymes & Poetry
Exploring the outdoors and rhyming go together perfectly. Your class will learn about word structures and rhyming while talking part in this fun physical...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Fun Adjectives Activity - Descriptive Writing - All About Adjectives
This outdoor adjective lesson is a fun and engaging activity where students explore the outdoors, find something interesting, draw it, and use their five...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Descriptive Writing Activity - Nature Journal - Ages 4 - 9
This resource is perfect for helping early writers start their very own nature journal! With three differentiated templates, this tool supports students...
Premium Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Outdoor Adjectives Activity - Tree Adjectives - Personification
This outdoor writing activity is both engaging and a fun way to teach adjectives, while also introducing the concept of personification. Students will...
Free Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Tree Poetry Lesson - Outdoor Writing - Descriptive Writing
This poetry and description activity is designed to get students thinking creatively about trees, looking at their features closely and starting to personify...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Onomatopoeia Poetry Activity
This engaging poetry activity immerses students in the sounds of nature while exploring onomatopoeia. They’ll listen, create their own sounds, and...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Instruction Writing Lesson | Treasure Hunt | Non-Fiction
For this 'instructions' writing activity students will create a treasure hunt for their partner to follow. They will hide an object (name tag, stone with...
Free Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Instruction Writing Activity - Recipe For A Woodland
This activity is designed to get students thinking about instruction writing while appreciating the world around them. It can easily be adapted to suite...
Premium Downloadages 4-6, 7-9
Outdoor Mapping Activity - Report Writing - Coordinates
For this activity students will create a map of your outdoor space imagining they are an animal that lives there. It is great if you’re looking at habitats,...
Free Downloadages 7-9, 10-12
Instruction Writing Lesson - Invent A Game
Inventing an outdoor game is an engaging and creative way for your class to enhance their instruction writing skills. Begin by introducing an example game,...
Premium Downloadages 7-9, 10-12