Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define adjectives that have been used to describe different nouns in a poem about a dragon, sets of cards for support ability levels to group words with the same spelling phoneme endings and match letter strings with the suffix ion to build different rhyming words for core ability levels and a worksheet to add the suffix ion to word roots for extension ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and match letter strings with the suffix ion to build different rhyming words that can be used in sentences to describe 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.