This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to collect and record sets of vocabulary words that can be used to describe in sentences about how to clean, feed and exercise an unusual animal kept as a pet by a family.

The class can read and explore a text about how to look after a pet elephant as preparation for producing their own vocabulary lists for another type of wild animal.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to collect and record sets of vocabulary words that can be used to describe in sentences about how to clean, feed and exercise an unusual animal kept as a pet by a family

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define vocabulary words that can be used to describe how to clean, feed and exercise a pet elephant and a template to collect and record sets of words that can be used to describe how to care for a family pet.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore sets of words that can be used to describe how to clean, feed and exercise a family pet.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write a narrative story about keeping an unusual animal as a pet, learn spellings of words with the /i:/ sound spelt ey and write descriptive sentences using 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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