Lesson Three – Animal Lists

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to collect and record lists of adjectives that can be used to describe different parts of an animal to utilise when composing a poem.

The class can use some of the collected vocabulary to write expanded noun phrases describing different animals that live wild in habitats around the world.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to collect and record lists of adjectives that can be used to describe different parts of an animal to utilise when composing a poem

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define special vocabulary words used in a poem to describe different animals and a worksheet to collect and record lists of adjectives that can be used to describe different parts of an animal.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record lists of adjectives that can be used to describe different parts of an animal.

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.

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