Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text of a poem written by a soldier describing life in the first world war, a worksheet to answer key questions about the structure and content of the poem, worksheet to define the meaning of different words in the poem.

The interactive presentation gets the children to identify and describe how poets express ideas, moods and feelings in a poem on a specific topic by exploring a poem about the first world war.

This lesson can support development in reading and understanding how poems are structured and formatted and how poets can use different forms of figurative language to illustrate themes in their writing. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.