Pets are important and valued members of many families and pupils in KS2 may have experience of owning a pet, including some responsibility for looking after it.
Discuss with pupils which animals make the perfect pet using the resources in this pack. A class debate can take place, with pupils arguing which pet is the best, before writing their own discussion texts about pets (balanced arguments and/or a single viewpoint).
Pupils will draw their perfect pet, adding descriptions of them and what
makes that particular animal the perfect pet. They will then debate with their classmates as to which animal is, indeed, the best pet before using this information to write their own discussion texts. Teachers can use the tasks to introduce cohesive devices to link ideas in discussion texts and develop speaking and listening skills.
What is included in this KS2 writing resources pack?
- Teaching slides
- Pet images
- My Perfect Pet worksheet
- Discursive language word mat
- Discursive writing planning sheet – one point of view
- Discursive writing planning sheet – opposing viewpoints
- Themed writing paper
National Curriculum links
Spoken Language
Pupils should be taught to:
- articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
- consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others
Writing - Composition:
Pupils should be taught to:
Y3/4
- plan and draft by discussing and recording ideas
- draft and write by composing and rehearsing sentences orally
- (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich
- vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures
Y5/6
- plan their writing by noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on
- reading and research where necessary
- using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across
- paragraphs