Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to select and record adjectives that can be used to describe an animal that might feature in a narrative story and a worksheet to make models of wild animals to match initial sounds for different letters of the alphabet.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to list special vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different story characters.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to identify different ways that authors can use descriptive vocabulary in stories and select and use initial sounds in words based on The Mixed-up Chameleon by Eric Carle. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.