Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to select special vocabulary words that can be used to describe the winter, a shared reading text to explain how to use descriptive vocabulary to write a personification poem describing winter weather, a worksheet to select vocabulary words that can be used to describe the winter season using the five senses and a template to structure and write a personification poem about the winter.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select and work with descriptive vocabulary to write a personification poem describing winter weather.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise composing and presenting different types of poems to illustrate how the weather can make changes to the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.