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Remembering Queen Elizabeth II, The Longest Serving Monarch: Key Stage 2 Lessons and Worksheets Pack

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Queen Elizabeth II was the monarch for 70 years, from 1952 to 2022. Teach pupils about her life and significant events during her life and reign using this resource pack.

Pupils in Key Stage 2 will read a biography of Queen Elizabeth II, learning about her life and work. Comprehension questions are included to check pupils' understanding of what they have read.

In other activities, pupils will create a timeline of her life and explore her family tree, identifying those next in line to the throne within her family. There is also the opportunity to research the role that the monarch plays in the UK and to think about what pupils may do if they were to become the monarch.

What is included in this KS2 Queen Elizabeth II resource pack?

Biographical text about Queen Elizabeth II and comprehension questions
Vocabulary cards
Image of Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II’s life – timeline cards
Queen Elizabeth II’s family tree
What does a monarch do? research sheet
If I were the monarch … worksheet
If I were the monarch … writing scaffold
Teaching notes

National Curriculum programme of study links

History
Pupils should be taught about a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils chronological knowledge beyond 1066 

English: Reading Comprehension
Pupils should be taught to understand what they read by:
• checking that the text makes sense to them …
• drawing inferences …
• retrieving and recording information from non-fiction

English: Writing Composition
Year 3/4
Pupils should be taught to draft and write by composing and rehearsing sentences orally, progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures
Year 5/6
Pupils should be taught to recognise vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms

  • Biographical text about Queen Elizabeth II
  • Comprehension questions
  • Answer sheet
  • Vocabulary cards for display
  • Vocabulary cards for matching
  • Image of Queen Elizabeth II
  • Queen Elizabeth II’s life – timeline cards
  • Queen Elizabeth II’s family tree
  • What does a monarch do? research sheet
  • If I were the monarch … worksheet
  • If I were the monarch … writing scaffold
  • Teaching notes
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