Key Stage One : English : Year Two Planning : Term One : New Pets : Lesson Four – Animal Capitals


This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using capital letters in sentences to describe different animals that could be kept as a pet by a family. The children can also add powerful adjectives to describe the nouns in each sentence about pet animals.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise using capital letters in sentences to describe different animals that could be kept as a pet by a family

Learning Objectives

Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly including full stops, capital letters. Discussing and clarifying the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary.

Learning Outcomes

I know to use capital letters and full stops to demarcate a sentence. I can identify and explain the meaning of adjectives used to describe nouns.

Animal Capitals

Teaching sequence to help the children practise using capital letters in sentences to describe different animals that could be kept as a pet by a family

Pet Sentences

Activity to help the children add adjectives to describe different animals that could be kept as a pet by a family in sentences with the correct punctuation for capital letters and full stops

Pet Sentences (support)

Activity to help the children punctuate sentences about different animals that could be kept as a pet by a family adding capital letters and full stops

Animal Capitals

Interactive activity to help the children practise using capital letters in sentences to describe different animals that could be kept as a pet by a family

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise using capital letters in sentences to describe different animals that could be kept as a pet by a family

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