Lesson Four – Animal Research

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and record sections of an encyclopaedia entry that can be used to answer different key questions about an animal that lives in a habitat around the world.
The class can identify and explain how non-fiction books present different pieces of information about animals in paragraphs.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and record sections of an encyclopaedia entry that can be used to answer different key questions about an animal that lives in a habitat around the world
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet template to help select and record a range of different questions and answers that can be obtained from an encyclopaedia entry about a animal that lives in a habitat around the world.
The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate how to select and record sections of an encyclopaedia entry that can be used to answer different key questions 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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