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 and a set of differentiated worksheets to select and use adjectives to describe some different parts of a dragon in sentences.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record powerful descriptive vocabulary to describe some different parts of a dragon in example sentences.

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.