Key Stage One : English : Year Two Planning : Term One : New Pets : Lesson Three – Animal Lists


This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and compile lists of descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different animals. The class can select words to describe the colour, shape, size and sounds of animals that could be kept as family pets.

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

Learning Objectives

Writing down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary. Discussing and clarifying the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary.

Learning Outcomes

I can select adjectives to describe a particular noun. I can identify and explain the meaning of adjectives used to describe nouns.

Animal Lists

Teaching sequence to help the children select and compile lists of descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different animals

Animal 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

Animal Words (support)

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

Animal Lists

Interactive activity to help the children select and compile lists of descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different animals

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

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