Activities in this teaching pack include a template to draft and record sentences for a page in an encyclopaedia that can provide facts and information about a specific type of mini-beast by answering key questions about their appearance, behaviour and habitat.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to draft an entry for a page in an encyclopaedia that provides information about a specific type of mini-beast.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to devise a class information book that uses alphabetical ordering to describe different mini-beasts that might live in the school grounds, identify and spell words with the or and ar phonemes and punctuate lists in sentences using commas. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.