Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define vocabulary words used in a tongue twister poem about a dragon and a template to select and list words to describe the shape, colour, size, movement and sound of an animal.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use vocabulary words with the same initial sounds to compose tongue twisters about different animals.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate poems about different animals that play with language written as tongue twisters, riddles and rhymes, practise spelling words ending in the suffix tion and use noun phrases to describe and specify animals. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.