Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify descriptive language used in a poem to describe ideas and emotions in a poem about relationships and a worksheet to edit and change similes and metaphors about relationships by selecting more powerful vocabulary.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write similes and metaphors in poetry to describe and illustrate different relationships.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to compose a selection of different types of poems using figurative language and poetry styles to illustrate relationships between friends and family members. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.