Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how to shape vocabulary words in a poem describing different different types of rain that might affect the school’s location, a worksheet to collect and record synonyms of different words that can be used to describe types of rain and a template to produce a poem in the shape of an umbrella illustrating the weather.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to choose and work with special vocabulary words to use in a shape poem describing the weather on a rainy day.

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.