This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and use descriptive vocabulary words in a poem to describe some of the different animals that can be kept as pets by families.

The class can use the lists of words to structure a poem about a pet animal and explain how they are unique and different from other animals by their appearance, movements and sounds.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and use descriptive vocabulary words in a poem to describe some of the different animals that can be kept as pets by families

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify vocabulary that has used to describe nouns in a poem about a pet dog, a set of cards to group vocabulary words to match the size, shape and colour of pet animals and a template to select and use vocabulary in a poem to describe different nouns about a pet animal.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use descriptive vocabulary in a poem to describe different animals kept as pets by families.

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.

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