Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define vocabulary words used in a poem about animals born in the spring, a worksheet to select and order vocabulary words that can be used to describe different nouns related to spring animals and a set of cards for support ability levels to group different vocabulary words that can be used to describe nouns related to a spring animal.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore different synonym words that can be used to describe some of the animals that might be born during the spring.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select and use descriptive vocabulary words to compose a poem describing different things that can be seen in a family garden at Easter. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.