Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify descriptive language used in a narrative poem by a significant poet, a worksheet to select and compose similes and metaphors based on lines from a narrative poem about conflict and a set of cards identify and match figurative language to describe aspects of a poem.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose similes and metaphors to describe different features and aspects of a narrative poem about an event that happened between armies.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore how different poets use figurative language in poetry to illustrate and compare themes and ideas about conflict to other objects and emotions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.