Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to select and match groups of words that begin with the same initial sound, a template to record an illustration to match a word that begins with the digraph ch and a worksheet to make models of wild animals to match initial sounds for different letters of the alphabet.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to describe some different animals that live wild in the world by their matching colours and initial sounds.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to identify different ways that authors can use descriptive vocabulary in stories and select and use initial sounds in words based on The Mixed-up Chameleon by Eric Carle. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.