Lesson Five – Special Places Poetry Book

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and record how to edit and make improvements to a poem describing a special place that a family could visit on an outing.

The class can identify and model how to add another clause to each line in their poem about a special place using the conjunction and to suggest what might happen on the visit.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and record how to edit and make improvements to a poem describing a special place that a family could visit on an outing

Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to identify and record how to make corrections and improvements to a poem with descriptive and patterned vocabulary describing a special place that a family could visit together on an outing.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to edit and make improvements to 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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