Animals Alive
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and use special vocabulary words to describe the sounds and movements of some different wild animals to use when composing lines for a poem.
The class can practise making collections of nouns and adjectives that can be combined into word phrases to describe a specific type of animal that lives wild in the world.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and use special vocabulary words to describe the sounds and movements of some different wild animals to use when composing lines for a poem
Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to explain how to use vocabulary to describe the sounds and movements of different animals in poetry, worksheets to select and record synonyms to match descriptive vocabulary that can be used when writing a poem about an animal and a template to draft and edit a poem using descriptive vocabulary words to describe an animal that lives wild in the world.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use vocabulary words to describe the sounds and movements of different animals in poetry.
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.
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