English 2026 T2

Living Worlds : Habitats of Creatures

Week 4: Creating Our Tourist Brochure

Capybara Writing Feedback

WALT read multimodal texts about animal adaptations

Animal Adaptations

What are animal adaptations?

What are some ways animals can adapt?

What are some examples of animal adaptations?

Reading Focus: Reading multimodal Features

Using your knowledge organiser, what are some examples of multimodal features?

Let's find some examples

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals

Your turn, with your partner, find 1 iconic animal from your continent. Now take turns reading the information.

Write a summary of your animal

1) a sentence with 'which' to add extra information about its location or features

2) a sentence using a contrast connective (although, while, however)

Writing: WALT use adjectives to describe animals like a scientist

Adjective formula : (Size + Colour/Pattern + Type/Skill).

[Size] (How big?) → [Color/Pattern] (What does it look like?) → [Type/Skill] (What is its superpower?)."

The Adélie penguin walks on the ice. vs the short, black-and-white, torpedo-shaped Adélie penguin waddles across the frozen shoreline.

The albatross flies in the sky” vs The giant, snowy-white, migratory albatross soars over the Southern Ocean.

Your Turn

Write sentences about your animals including their adaptations using

superlatives (-est)
contrast connectives
'which' to add additional information

Copy of (Size + Colour/Pattern + Type/Skill)

Week 3: Reading & Research on our Continent

Tourist Brochure: Habitats & Creatures of a Continent

Capybara Research Pairs

Multimodal Features

Tourist Brochure - Research

Biomes and Habitats

Mission: Biomes - NASA ScienceHave you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a different part of the world? By investigating the plants and animals living in a certain kind of climate, you are learning about biomes.

HabitatsLearn about the different natural environments of plants and animals.

Animals and Threats to Animals

Continents

ContinentA continent is one of Earth’s seven main divisions of land. The continents are, from largest to smallest: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.

Continents of The World - Geography for Kids | MocomiContinents of The World - Continents are very large landmasses found on Earth. The Earth has seven such continents.

WALT read to develop our knowledge of the Earth’s habitats

Success Criteria

Fluently read the Biomes text
Emphasis key words when reading
Explain and summarise key ideas in the text
Read, research about 1 habitat and it briefly explain it in 1 sentence to the class.

Types of habitats

Polar, Tundra, Forests (Evergreen and Seasonal), Grasslands, Deserts, Tropical Rainforests, Oceans, Mountain Ranges.

DOE genre poster

Ss summarise the text, Write one carefully crafted sentence for each of the following

Do all scientists agree on the number of biomes? Begin your sentence with while (for contrast)
What are the factors that determine if an animal can live in a biome. Use commas in a list.
How are biomes and ecosystems different? Use ‘whereas’ as a subordinating conjunction to show the difference.

Activity - Investigate habitats

In pairs, Ss investigate the different biomes/habitats and create a concept map to share with the class. Teacher creates a shared

Resources

https://science.nasa.gov/kids/earth/mission-biomes/.

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/nature/habitats

We are activating prior knowledge about our new unit.

You will be successful when you:

use discussion sentence stems to build on ideas of classmates.
define 'genre' and give examples
describe some features of informative texts
make predictions about the text Discover the Animals of the World

Predictions about our Unit

I predict this unit might be about ...

We will learn about ...

I already know about ...

I would like to learn about ...

Unit Description

In this unit, we will dive into the living world of habitats and creatures, discovering where animals live and how they survive in different environments around the world. We will read, talk, and research like real scientists to find interesting facts and build our knowledge. By the end, you will create your own informative texts to teach others about amazing animals and their habitats! 🐾🌍