Lesson Four – Animal Words
This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise selecting some special vocabulary words to use in tongue twister poems describing a range of different animals and other creatures.
The class can practise different ways of performing their poems to an audience using voice expressions and tones to show the meaning of the selected vocabulary and poetry structure.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting some special vocabulary words to use in tongue twister poems describing a range of different animals and other creatures
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how to use special vocabulary words in a poem describing a dragon and a worksheet to use examples of poems to compose tongue twisters using special vocabulary words to describe animals and other creatures.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some special vocabulary words to use in tongue twister poems describing 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.
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