Elephant
This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select, and record synonyms for different vocabulary words that can be used to describe a particular type of mammal in a poem to illustrate their appearance, movements and sounds.
The class can use the lists of words to structure a poem about an elephant and explain how they are unique and different from other animals.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select, define and record synonyms for different vocabulary words that can be used to describe a particular type of mammal in a poem to illustrate their appearance, movements and sounds
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different types of animals to select vocabulary to use in a poem, a shared reading text to define vocabulary that has been used to describe a mammal in a poem and sets of cards to match pairs of words that are synonyms to use when writing a poem about a specific type of mammal.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select pairs of synonyms that can be used to describe a particular type of mammal in a poem.
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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Unusual Pets
Plan and write a narrative story with a familiar setting about a family keeping an unusual animal as a pet
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Unusual Pet Story
Compose and publish a narrative story with a familiar setting to show some of the problems that an unusual animal might make for a family to solve
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Pet Story Plans
Role-play and record some of the narrative events that might happen in a story about a wild animal that might be kept as a pet by a family
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Pet Lists
Collect and record sets of vocabulary words that can be used to describe in sentences about how to clean, feed and exercise an unusual animal kept as a pet by a family