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Describing animals

Mammals | Birds | Insects | Molluscs | Describing animals

This set of activities ties the Animals topic together.

Target vocabulary from the previous subtopics – mammals, birds, insects and molluscs – is reviewed.

The literary focus is writing information reports and includes using action verbs, and capital letters and full stops.

Click on a link below to print/download a PDF file for each activity, which contains a teacher guide and student worksheet.

The downloads box on the right-hand side includes additional support material.

ACTIVITY TITLE ACTIVITY TYPE/SKILL
Focus on writing information reports  
1.67 Revising vocabulary – animals (PDF 786KB) Vocab revision
1.68 Information about weta (PDF 44KB) Text organisation
1.69 Using 'are' (PDF 388KB) Classifying
1.70 Using 'are' and 'have' (PDF 283KB) Classifying and describing
1.71 Using 'are', 'have' and action verbs (PDF 568KB) Classifying and describing
1.72 Capital letters and full stops (PDF 34KB) Punctuation
1.73 Write an information report (PDF 81KB) Planning and writing

Published on: 08 Jan 2018




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