Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to investigate how poets use and work with figurative language in poetry to express ideas about different themes and emotions and a set of cards to match words with similar meanings to use in poetry about conflict.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select special vocabulary words to extend and develop a poem describing themes and actions that occurred during the First World War.

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.