Lesson Five – Poem Changes
This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate how to review and edit a poem about a dragon selecting more effective descriptive vocabulary words for each part of the creature.
The class can explain and model how to rehearse reading their poems aloud ready to perform in the plenary with voice tones and expressions and some matching actions.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to review and edit a poem about a dragon selecting more effective descriptive vocabulary words for each part of the creature
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to identify and make improvements to the descriptive vocabulary words that have been used in a poem describing some different parts of a dragon when building alliterative phrases as part of expanded noun phrases.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to review and edit a poem about a dragon selecting more effective descriptive vocabulary for each part of the creature.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select descriptive vocabulary to use when writing poems that play with language to describe different parts of a dragon, explore the meaning of words with tion endings and practise writing extended noun phrases. 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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