Lesson Three – Animal Sentences

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate how to suggest and complete example sentences about different animals to accompany illustrations that might be viewed in non-fiction information books.
The class can identify and match different groups of cvc words that begin with the same letter of the alphabet for their initial phoneme sounds.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to suggest and complete example sentences about different animals to accompany illustrations that might be viewed in non-fiction information books
Activities in this teaching pack include templates to select vocabulary words to complete a sentence describing an animal that can be read about in a non-fiction book and a set of cards to identify and match sets of cvc words that begin with the same letter of the alphabet.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to complete example sentences about different animals to accompany illustrations in non-fiction books.
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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