This art project ‘Animal Sounds’ enables students to draw pictures of animals based on the sounds the animals make. It is a fun and engaging aural to visual exercise for early learners and is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures.
This vocabulary activity, ‘Animals’ supports vocabulary development through word and picture association.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Cool Cow Facts’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This spelling activity, ‘Correct Spelling’ provides opportunities for practice with identifying the correctly spelt plural form of the animals.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Farm Animals Match the Picture’ asks students to write words to match pictures that relate to farm animals. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a word describing it.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Farm Animals Match the Word’ asks students to identify words and pictures that relate to farm animals. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a word describing it.
This oral language photo activity ‘Cow’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Horse’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Pig’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Sheep’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This art project, ‘Make a Chicken Friend’ provides instructions for making a chicken from different coloured paper bags and cardboard paper.
This early learning activity, ‘Out in the Barnyard’ provides cut-outs to make stick puppets of various barnyard animals that feature in the accompanying poem.
This early learning activity, ‘Scarecrow’ provides instructions on how to make crow stick puppets and a scarecrow cut-out that students can assemble as they read the accompanying poem.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Farmer and the Cat’ asks students to answer questions about a tale in which a farmer welcomes a visiting cat but ignores his old cat. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, make predictions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Yee-Ha?’ asks students to answer questions about a life of a cowboy or cowgirl. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.