Lesson One – Word Homonyms
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to select and match different homonyms that can be used to describe a special place that can be visited with family and friends.
The class can match and use words that have double meanings in some examples sentences describing what can be seen and done during a visit to a park.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to select and match different homonyms that can be used to describe a special place that can be visited with family and friends
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how poets can use vocabulary words in a poem to describe a visit to a special place and a worksheet and cards to select and match the correct homonyms to complete sentences describing special places that can be visited with family and friends.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to match homonyms that can be used to describe a special place that can be visited with family and friends,
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to create descriptive images to use in poetry to describe different places in the local community, identify and record the double meanings of words that are homonyms and build expanded noun phrases using powerful adjectives and prepositions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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