This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise identifying and recording some of the pages in a non-fiction text that can provide facts and information about a range of different wild animals.

The class can investigate how to match and illustrate the names of some different wild animals to each of the identified letters in the alphabet for their initial phoneme sounds.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise identifying and recording some of the pages in a non-fiction text that can provide facts and information about a range of different wild animals

Activities in this teaching pack include templates to practise writing the names of different wild animals to match some of the letters of the alphabet and a worksheet to find and record the names of wild animals that they could read about on different pages in a non-fiction text.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record some of the pages in a non-fiction text that can provide information about 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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