Chinese zodiac writing activity (cloze procedure)

Chinese zodiac writing activity (cloze procedure) for Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year, based on the Chinese Zodiac story The Great Race. Pupils use a word bank to fill in the blanks and retell the story in the correct order.

This Chinese zodiac writing activity includes a tick-off word bank and illustrated “fill in the blanks” pages covering the Jade Emperor’s race, the river crossing, and how the zodiac animals earned their places. It works well as a KS1 Chinese New Year writing activity for reading, sequencing and sentence building.

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