Lesson One – Word Building

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and build a selection of different words by adding the phoneme sounds of al or el to a range of letter strings to use when describing pet animals.

The class can model and record how to use words with each ending in sentences to describe some of the different animals that could be kept as pets by a family.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and build a selection of different words by adding the phoneme sounds of al or el to a range of letter strings to use when describing pet animals

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards for support ability levels to identify and match groups of vocabulary words that end in the phoneme sounds of al or el and differentiated worksheets for core and extension ability levels to build a selection of different words by adding the phoneme sounds of al or el to a range of letter strings.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to build a selection of different words by adding the phoneme sounds of al or el to a range of letter strings to use when describing pet animals.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate sentence structures and vocabulary words used in stories with familiar settings, practise spelling words with common endings and use adjectives to write expanded noun phrases. 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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