Mini-beasts
This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using commas to compile and present lists about some of the different mini-beasts that can be found in habitats around the school grounds.
The class can select facts and information from prepared lists to work with when recording the colours, shapes and parts that can be found on a range of different mini-beasts.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using commas to compile and present lists about some of the different mini-beasts that can be found in habitats around the school grounds
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain how to use commas to separate items of information in a list about different mini-beasts, a set of cards for support ability levels to join parts of a sentence using commas to compile lists about mini-beasts and differentiated worksheets for core and extension ability levels to select and join parts of sentences about mini-beasts using commas to separate items of information.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use commas to write lists about different mini-beasts that can be found in the school grounds.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to compile lists using commas to present information about some of the special animals that live in habitats around the world. 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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