Lesson Four – Picture Captions
This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise composing and writing a range of simple sentences to describe some of the different animals that are featured in pictures or paintings by artists.
The class can identify and list some of the different animals that can match selected letters of the alphabet for their initial phoneme sounds.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise composing and writing simple sentences to describe some of the different animals that are featured in pictures or paintings by artists
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to select and record a sentence caption to describe an animal featured in a picture taken from a magazine and a worksheet to select different letters of the alphabet to match objects listed in a non-fiction book.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose and write simple sentences to describe some of the different animals that are featured in pictures.
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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