Lesson Three – Riddle Poem

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to select and use some special vocabulary words in a poem that plays with language to describe a type of animal that lives wild in a habitat around the world.
The class can practise writing extended noun phrases using powerful adjectives to describe nouns about the appearance, sounds and movements of animals.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to select and use some special vocabulary words in a poem that plays with language to describe a type of animal that lives wild in a habitat around the world
Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to add and use some special vocabulary words to complete and compose lines for a poem that plays with language to describe a type of animal that lives in a habitat around the world.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use special vocabulary words in a poem that plays with language to describe a type of animal.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate poems about different animals that play with language written as tongue twisters, riddles and rhymes, practise spelling words ending in the suffix tion and use noun phrases to describe and specify 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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