Key Stage One : English : Year Two Planning : Term One : New Pets : Lesson Five – Pet Boxes


This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to make collections of words and sentences to describe an unusual pet that could have been kept by a family. The class can fill boxes with model items that might be needed to look after a specific pet animal.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to make collections of words and sentences to describe an unusual pet that could have been kept by a family

Learning Objectives

Encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence. Discussing and clarifying the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary.

Learning Outcomes

I can use adjectives in sentences to describe a noun. I can explain the meaning of words from reading.

Pet Boxes

Teaching sequence to help the children make collections of words and sentences to describe an unusual pet that could have been kept by a family

Pet Words

Activity to help the children compile lists of descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe an animal that could be kept as a family pet

Pet Boxes

Interactive activity to help the children make collections of words and sentences to describe an unusual pet that could have been kept by a family

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to make collections of words and sentences to describe an unusual pet that could have been kept by a family

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