Year 1 English 1.2: Giving and following instructions

Listening to & following instructions

Instructions are sentences that tell us how to do something, we have to listen carefully to what is being asked in order to be able to complete what we are being asked to do.

Examples of times when we follow instructions:

Following a recipe to bake a cake
Following instructions to make a LEGO set.

Giving & following instructions

Instructions should be short and simple as this makes them easier for the person who is listening to you to remember and follow them.

Examples could be:

Go to your peg
Put on your coat
Line up at the door

If there are multiple instructions to follow these should be broken down and given in a sensible order for example for instructions to put on your shoes the order be:

Put on your socks
Put on your shoes
Tie up your laces