Unit H – Animal Encyclopaedia
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to design and produce a class encyclopaedia including entries and information about different classes of animals, match prefixes and word roots, learn how to retrieve information from non-fiction texts and link sentence clauses using conjunctions.
Design and produce a class encyclopaedia including entries and information about different classes of animals found in the world
Lesson One : Prefix Corrections
Explore how to identify and record the correct words that can be used to describe different types of animals that can be built by using matching prefixes and word roots
Lesson Two : Animal Paragraphs
Investigate how to highlight and label an encyclopaedia entry about a special class of animal to show the main theme of each paragraph in the text
Lesson Three : Animal Explanations
Investigate how to identify and record how to extend some example sentences about different classes of animals using a range of conjunctions
Lesson Four : Animal Notes
Practise researching and recording facts and information about a specific class of animal to use when composing an example encyclopaedia entry
Lesson Five : Animal Classes
Explore how to compose and present facts and information for an encyclopaedia entry describing a specific class of animal that can be found in the world
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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
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Money Multiplication
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems
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Sport Teams
Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team