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Lesson Two – Changing Animals

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select and list vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different story characters. The class can match letters of the alphabet to initial sounds used in different words that can describe animals.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and list vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different story characters

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 words from reading used to describe a story character. I can match letters of the alphabet to initial sounds in words.

Changing Animals

Teaching sequence to help the children select and list vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different story characters

What Animal

Activity cards to help the children select and record adjectives that can be used to describe an animal that might feature in a narrative story

Alphabet Board

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

Changing Animals

Interactive activity to help the children select and list vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different story characters

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and list vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different story characters

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