Lesson Three – Poetry Verses

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explain and model how use collections of nouns and adjectives to write different verses for a poem about animals that live wild in habitats around the world.

The class can practise combining the listed vocabulary words for expanded noun phrases into lines to continue a poem with patterned language to describe some special wild animals.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how use collections of nouns and adjectives to write different verses for a poem about animals that live wild in habitats around the world

Activities in this teaching pack include a template to record how to select and combine a selection of different nouns and adjectives to build expanded noun phrases to insert into lines for a poem describing a type of animal that lives wild in a habitat around the world.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use collections of nouns and adjectives to write different verses for a poem about wild animals.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to write and edit poems about different animals using patterned language, practise spelling words with the /s/ sound spelt c and write expanded noun phrases to describe and specify people, places and things related to wild animals to use when composing lines for a poem. 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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