Lesson Five – Easter Egg Poem

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise drafting and editing shape poems containing special vocabulary words to describe different eggs that can be given to family members at Easter.

The class can explain and model how to compose lines for a poem using powerful adjectives to match noun phrases related to different types of Easter eggs.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise drafting and editing shape poems containing special vocabulary words to describe different eggs that can be given to family members at Easter

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and define varied and rich vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different Easter eggs and a template to structure and format a shape poem about some of the eggs that can be given to family members for Easter.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to draft and edit shape poems containing special vocabulary words to describe different Easter eggs.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select and use descriptive vocabulary to create a shape poem describing different types of eggs given for Easter. 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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