Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards for support ability levels to build lists about different types of animals using commas to separate items in sentences and differentiated worksheets for core and extension ability levels to practise composing and recording lists about different mini-beasts using the correct punctuation for commas.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use commas to separate items in example sentences when writing lists about different types of animals.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise different ways of finding information about animals in non-fiction information books, investigate words spelt with the or sound and use commas to write lists about groups of animals. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.