Lesson Three – Animal Explanations
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to identify and record how to extend some example sentences about different classes of animals using a range of conjunctions.
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 mammals or reptiles.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to identify and record how to extend some example sentences about different classes of animals using a range of conjunctions
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets for support, core and extension ability levels to practise adding extra clauses to example sentences about some different animal classes using the conjunctions because, if and when.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record how to extend sentences about some different classes of animals using a range of conjunctions.
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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