The Great Cake Review | Upper KS2 English Activity Pack

The Great Cake Review | Upper KS2 English Activity Pack

Short description

Three cakes. Two young reviewers. One well-supported verdict. Turn Daisy-Mae and Lia's cake-testing story into a lively English lesson about evidence, opinion and persuasive review writing.

Full description

Which cake deserves the winning review? Daisy-Mae and Lia test raspberry and white chocolate, extremely chocolatey, and hazelnut praline cookie cups. Your pupils watch closely, compare what they notice with what the girls think, and write a balanced recommendation of their own.

This 14-page printable A4 PDF gives you a ready-to-teach sequence of three 45-minute lessons for Years 5–6. It links to the English National Curriculum for upper Key Stage 2, with an optional Year 5 mathematics task.

What's inside

• Teacher guide and curriculum map
• Model cake review with reading questions
• Evidence log for the three cakes
• Fact, opinion and unproven-claim activity
• Precise vocabulary and sentence-improvement tasks
• Review planner, lined writing page and peer-check list
• Optional class-vote mathematics activity
• Answer key and model responses

Pupils can use the cake-testing film and follow-on storyboards, or work from the still image and read-aloud model in the pack. No food tasting is required. The teacher guide also suggests oral rehearsal, shorter writing chunks and other accessible routes.

Format: instant digital download, PDF, 14 A4 pages. The video and storyboards are not included in this PDF. If you choose to run a real tasting, follow your school's food-allergy policy.

Created by Cindy Ettienne-Murphy for NOWAY Academy.