This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and make collections of nouns and adjectives that can be used to describe different wild animals for use when composing lines for a poem.

The class can identify and explain the meaning of special words from a poem they have read about some wild animals that live in different habitats around the world.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and make collections of nouns and adjectives that can be used to describe different wild animals for use when composing lines for a poem

Activities in this teaching pack include a template to select and record lists of matching nouns and adjectives that can be used to describe a specific type of wild animal that lives in a special habitat around the world to use when composing lines for a poem.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different nouns and adjectives that can be used to describe different wild animals.

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.

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