Lesson Five – Animal Classes
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to 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.
The class can explain and model how to link clauses in their sentences using conjunctions when describing the specific features of an animal class such as mammals or reptiles.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to structure and format an entry for an encyclopaedia describing a specific class of animal when presenting facts and information that can be used to answer key questions about their appearance, characteristics and habitat.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose an entry for an encyclopaedia describing a specific class of animal that can be found in the world.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get 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. 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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