Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to practise using dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of some words with the prefixes dis, un and re to use when writing example sentences about different types of animals.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record the correct words that can be used to describe classes of animals that can be built by using matching prefixes and roots.

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.