Lesson Five – Pet Boxes

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to 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.
The class can fill some boxes with a selection of different items that might be needed to look after a specific pet animal by members of a family.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to compile lists of descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe a wild animal that could be kept as a family pet that can be utilised when writing sentences about each of the animals.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to make collections of words and sentences to describe an unusual pet that could have been kept by a family.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get 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. 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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