Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to explain how to structure and format a Kenning poem about a type of animal and a template to select and record descriptive vocabulary to use in a Kenning poem describing an animal by their appearance and behaviour.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore vocabulary words that can be used in a Kenning poem to describe a type of animal in the world.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select and use special vocabulary words to use when composing poems with different forms to describe a range of animals. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.