Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a type of poem that plays with language, worksheets to select words that begin with the same initial sounds to use when writing poetry about the seaside and a set of cards to identify words with the same initial phoneme sounds to use in tongue twister poems.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to choose vocabulary words to use when writing tongue twister poems about visiting the seaside.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise composing and presenting poems using descriptive vocabulary to illustrate some of the special places that can be found in the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.