I have...Who Has...? Animals Edition

Read a printed animal name aloud from a card and hold the whole class's attention while doing so

Match a spoken animal name to the picture on your own card and respond at the right moment

Listen through a long sequence without a visible cue, tracking whether your card has been called yet

Recognise and name thirty-two animals in English, including less common ones such as hedgehog, goose, donkey and beetle

Deal out every single card before starting - the teacher letter is explicit that the chain breaks if any card is left over, and it is fine for a child to hold two or three

Give a quieter reader the start card marked "I have the first card. Let's play!", since that turn has no listening demand attached to it

Hand the harder names - hedgehog, crocodile, mosquito, kangaroo - to your stronger readers, and keep fox, dog, cat and cow for children still building confidence

Play a second round after shuffling; the order of animals is fixed by the cards themselves, so the sequence stays the same while every child gets a different word to read

Laminate the four card pages before cutting - a whole-class deck passes through every pair of hands each round

Reading single words aloud - each turn requires a child to read a printed animal name clearly enough for the whole class to hear it.

Word-to-picture matching - the answer side of every card is an illustration, so a child must connect the name they hear to the animal drawn on their own card.

Sustained listening - with thirty-two links in the chain, a child has to follow every turn to know when theirs arrives.

Animal vocabulary - the deck stretches past the common animals into hedgehog, goose, donkey, beetle, mosquito, crab and panda.

Whole-class turn-taking - the routine gives every child at least one card and one turn, with the game unable to continue until the right person speaks.