Famous Nurses Vocabulary Cloze

Year 1 HistoryFlorence Nightingale and Mary Seacole3 pages

About this worksheet

Twelve gaps run through a two-page passage about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole in this Year 1 history cloze. Pupils pick from a 12-word bank that includes Crimea, Jamaica, herbs, hotel and lamp, and each word is used once. The passage moves from the dirty hospital and the Lady with the Lamp to Mary's plant medicines and the British Hotel near the battlefield. Question 13 asks pupils to write a sentence of their own using one word from the bank. The sheet matches the KS1 history content of the England National Curriculum. The answer page lists all 12 words in order, with two sample sentences for question 13.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Lives of significant individuals

“The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements, some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods [for example, Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong, William Caxton and Tim Berners-Lee, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and LS Lowry, Rosa Parks and Emily Davison, Mary Seacole and/or Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell]”

Gaps 1 to 12 retell the work of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole, who are both named in this statement. Question 13 asks for a sentence about one of them.

What's inside this worksheet

Word bank and Florence's story

Pupils fill gaps 1 to 7 from a bank of 12 words. They describe the war in the Crimea, the dirty wards Florence scrubbed clean and the lamp she carried at night.

Mary Seacole and Your Turn

Gaps 8 to 12 cover Mary's birth in Jamaica, her herbs, the money she saved and the British Hotel. In question 13, pupils pick one bank word and write a sentence about either nurse.

Answers

The 12 missing words in order, from nurses to brave, plus model sentences for question 13 such as 'Mary Seacole used herbs to make medicine.'

How teachers use it

Read it aloud first

Read the passage to the class and hum at each gap before anyone writes. Many Year 1 readers need to hear 'Crimea' said aloud before they can find it in the bank.

Cross off as you go

Tell pupils to cross each word off the bank once they use it. If a pupil has two words left for one gap, an earlier answer is wrong.

Picture talk

Before page 2, look at the picture of Mary at her table with a bowl and jars. Ask what she might be making, then let pupils find herbs for gap 9.

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