Summertime
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to select and work with some powerful vocabulary words to use when composing and writing a Cinquain poem describing the summer season of the year.
The class can make collections of words with similar meanings to write poem matching a particular structure and style when expressing thoughts and ideas about the summer.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to select and work with some powerful vocabulary words to use when composing and writing a Cinquain poem describing the summer season of the year
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different summer events and experiences, a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a Cinquain poem using descriptive vocabulary and differentiated worksheets to select and list synonyms for descriptive vocabulary about the summer to use in poetry.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select and work with some powerful vocabulary words to use when writing a Cinquain poem describing a season of the year.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to select and manipulate descriptive vocabulary to use when composing different types of poems about each season of the year. 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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