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.