Lesson Four – Animal Notes
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise researching and recording facts and information about a specific class of animal to use when composing an example encyclopaedia entry.
The class can explain and model how to search for and retrieve information in a non-fiction text to answer a key question on a specific class of animal such as amphibians and insects.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise researching and recording facts and information about a specific class of animal to use when composing an example encyclopaedia entry
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to select and record abbreviated notes to answer some different key questions about a specific class of animal to use when compiling facts and information into a matching entry for an encyclopaedia.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to research and record information about a class of animal to use when composing an encyclopaedia entry.
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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