Unit A – New Pets

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explore descriptive language used in stories about family life, practise spelling words with le endings and write sentences using the correct punctuation based on I Want a Pet, Lauren Child.

Explore descriptive language used in stories about family life, practise spelling words with le endings and write sentences using the correct punctuation

Lesson One : Word Guess

Play different paired and group games to identify the spelling and meaning of different words with le endings that can be used to describe pet animals

Lesson Two : Animal Sentences

Select and use a range of descriptive vocabulary words to describe some of the different animals that could be kept as pets by a family

Lesson Three : Animal Lists

Select and compile lists of descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different animals that live wild in the world

Lesson Four : Animal Capitals

Practise using capital letters correctly in sentences to describe some of the different wild animals that could be kept as a pet by a family

Lesson Five : Pet Boxes

Investigate how to make collections of vocabulary words and sentences that can be used to describe an unusual pet animal that could have been kept by a family

  • Number Doubles

    Number Doubles

    Model and record how to double different numbers to twenty using concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to support calculations

  • Zoo Animal Doubles

    Zoo Animal Doubles

    Practise doubling different numbers of animals that might be seen at a zoo recorded in words and digits to ten using diagrams and number lines to model each product

  • Doubles Facts

    Doubles Facts

    Identify, match and record the doubles of different numbers to ten using concrete equipment and repeated addition to support each multiplication number calculation

  • Tower Doubles

    Tower Doubles

    Practise counting and doubling different numbers of cubes that have been used to make a range of towers to five, ten and fifteen