Lesson Five – Encyclopaedia Entry

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record how to re-organise different sections of an encyclopaedia entry to present information about an animal that lives in a habitat found around the world.
The class can list questions that the entry might answer about a type of animal that lives in a specific type of habitat.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and record how to re-organise different sections of an encyclopaedia entry to present information about an animal that lives in a habitat found around the world
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated table display cards to help record how to re-organise different sections of an encyclopaedia entry to present information about an animal that lives in a habitat found around the world.
The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate how to record how to re-organise different sections of an encyclopaedia entry to present information about an animal.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore and record the structure of alphabetically ordered texts using encyclopaedia entries about different 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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