Lesson Four – Special Place Poem

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and model how to select and add special vocabulary words to lines for a poem describing a special place that a family could visit together.
The class can practise using the five senses to structure their poems adding exciting vocabulary words to describe a special place for a family outing such as a mountain or seashore location.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and model how to select and add special vocabulary words to lines for a poem describing a special place that a family could visit together
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to record how to use the five senses to select special vocabulary words to use when completing and adding lines to a poem describing a special place that a family could visit on an outing together.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select and add vocabulary words to lines for a poem describing a special place that a family could visit.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write poems about different places that are special to families using descriptive vocabulary, spell words containing the vowel digraphs ar and or and practise using and to join words and clauses in sentences about a range of locations. 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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