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Lesson One – Animal Colours

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe different animals that live wild in the world by their matching colours and initial sounds. The class can identify and list vocabulary that can be used to describe a character in a narrative story.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and describe different animals that live wild in the world by their matching colours and initial sounds

Learning Objectives

Extend their vocabulary, exploring the meanings and sounds of new words. Identify initial sounds and match to letters of the alphabet.

Learning Outcomes

I can explain the meaning of new words from my reading using what I already know about a topic. I can match initial sounds in words to letters of the alphabet.

Animal Colours

Teaching sequence to help the children identify and describe different animals that live wild in the world by their matching colours and initial sounds

Chameleons

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children identify and describe how chameleons can change their colours

Word Match

Activity cards to help the children select and match groups of words that begin with the same initial sound

What Words

Template to help the children select and record an illustration to match a word that begins with the digraph ch

Alphabet Board

Activity to get the children to make models of wild animals to match initial sounds for different letters of the alphabet

Animal Colours

Interactive activity to help the children identify and describe different animals that live wild in the world by their matching colours and initial sounds

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and describe different animals that live wild in the world by their matching colours and initial sounds

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