Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to identify and make changes and improvements to the performance of a poem about a type of wild animal to illustrate the meaning of words in the poem used to describe an animal’s appearance and behaviour.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to rehearse and perform a poem to the class about a type of wild animal adding voice expressions and actions.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate some of the special words used to describe different types of wild animals in poems with patterned language. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.