Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to explore and record the structure and format of a non-fiction text about a special class of animals including the use of paragraphs to organise information when researching answers to some key questions.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to label an encyclopaedia entry about a class of animal to show the main theme of each paragraph in the text.

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.