Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define descriptive vocabulary in a poem that could be used to describe special places that families can visit on an outing and a template to collect and record lists of vocabulary words that can describe what might happen when visiting a zoo.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record lists of vocabulary words using the five senses that can be used to describe visiting a zoo.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and explore poems with descriptive vocabulary about different places that families could visit on a special outing, practise spelling words with the vowel digraphs air and ear and join sentence clauses and words using the conjunction and. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.