Lesson One – Initial Sounds

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and spell different words that contain the /n/ initial sound spelt kn and gn when playing word games and reading poems about species of animals.

The class can model and record how to use some of the words with the phoneme sound /n/ to describe different animals that live wild in the world.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and spell different words that contain the /n/ initial sound spelt kn and gn when playing word games and reading poems about species of animals

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define some of the special vocabulary words used to describe a type of animal in a poem, a worksheet to play games to identify and spell different words that contain the /n/ initial sound spelt kn and gn and a set of cards to match and group sets of words that contain the /n/ initial sound spelt kn and gn,

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to identify and spell different words that contain the /n/ initial sound spelt kn and gn.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate some of the special words used to describe different types of wild animals in poems with patterned language. 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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