Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify descriptive vocabulary and alliterative phrases used in a poem describing each part of a dragon and a template to select and write expanded noun phrases to describe some different parts of a dragon.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use special vocabulary words to write expanded noun phrases describing different parts of a dragon.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select descriptive vocabulary to use when writing poems that play with language to describe different parts of a dragon, explore the meaning of words with tion endings and practise writing extended noun phrases. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.