Lesson Two – Pet Sentences

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and list descriptive adjectives that can be used to create expanded noun phrases to use in sentences describing animals that could be kept as pets by a family.
The class can explain the meaning of different vocabulary words that they might use to describe a pet animal when composing example sentences.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and list descriptive adjectives that can be used to create expanded noun phrases to use in sentences describing animals that could be kept as pets by a family
Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to select and use descriptive adjectives to complete expanded noun phrases in a range of different sentences describing some of the unusual animals that might be kept as a pet by a family.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use descriptive adjectives to create expanded noun phrases to use in sentences describing pets.
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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