Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different types of animals to select vocabulary to use in a poem, a shared reading text to define vocabulary that has been used to describe a mammal in a poem and sets of cards to match pairs of words that are synonyms to use when writing a poem about a specific type of mammal.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select pairs of synonyms that can be used to describe a particular type of mammal in a poem.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and collect different vocabulary words to use when composing poems about the appearance, movements and sounds made by a range of animals. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.