Lesson Five – Art Gallery
This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explain and model how to select and record simple sentences to use as captions accompanying pictures of some different animals that might be included as part of a non-fiction information book.
The class can build an alphabet for classroom display using the letters that match the names of wild animals for their initial phoneme sounds.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to select and record simple sentences to use as captions accompanying pictures of some different animals that might be included as part of a non-fiction information book
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to compose a sentence caption to describe what can be seen in artwork showing different animals and a set of cards to select and record pictures of animals to match different letters of the alphabet for their initial phoneme sounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record simple sentences to use as captions accompanying pictures of different animals.
This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to practise finding information in non-fiction books about different animals that live around the world, match the names of animals to the corresponding letters of the alphabet and write simple sentences as captions for pictures of favourite animals. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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School Safari
Identify and compare some of the different animals that live in the school grounds and make comparisons between animals that live in other habitats
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Four Sided Shapes
Name, model and classify some example four sided shapes with matching numbers of corners and sides that can be seen and used in different locations
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Chameleons
Identify and record some of the different ways that authors can use descriptive vocabulary in stories and select and use initial sounds in words
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Butterflies
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