Select descriptive vocabulary to use when writing poems that play with language to describe different parts of a dragon

Investigate poems about different animals that play with language written as tongue twisters, riddles and rhymes

Devise a class information book that uses alphabetical ordering to describe different mini-beasts that might live in the school grounds

Practise different ways of finding information about animals in non-fiction information books, investigate words spelt with the or sound and use commas to write lists

Plan and write a story based on a book by a significant author about an animal kept as a pet by a family

Write and edit poems using patterned language about some of the different wild animals that could be kept as pets by a family

Plan and write a narrative story with a familiar setting about a family keeping an unusual animal as a pet

Plan and write a narrative story with a familiar setting about a family keeping an unusual animal as a pet

Investigate sentence structures and vocabulary words used in stories with familiar settings, practise spelling words with common endings and use adjectives to write expanded noun phrases

Explore the narrative structure and sequence of events in a story by a significant author with animals as the main characters

Read and follow sets of simple instructions, practise building words by adding the suffix ly to different word roots and write sentences that are commands, questions and statements

Investigate some of the special words used to describe different types of wild animals in poems with patterned language