Activities in this teaching pack include a template to record how to select and combine a selection of different nouns and adjectives to build expanded noun phrases to insert into lines for a poem describing a type of animal that lives wild in a habitat around the world.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record special vocabulary words to use in a poem describing wild animals that could be kept as pets.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to write and edit poems about different animals using patterned language, practise spelling words with the /s/ sound spelt c and write expanded noun phrases to describe and specify people, places and things related to wild animals to use when composing lines for a poem. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.