Lesson Five – Poetry Changes
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to rewrite one of the verses from a narrative poem by adding alternative rhymes and using modal verbs to suggest possibilities about some of the events that happened in the story.
The class can suggest how and why a poet might use specific vocabulary to narrate the events in a poem to evoke responses in the reader.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to rewrite one of the verses from a narrative poem by adding alternative rhymes and using modal verbs to suggest possibilities about some of the events that happened in the story
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how poets use figurative language to describe characters and settings in a narrative poem and a table display card to select modal verbs to suggest possibilities about events when rewriting one of the verses from a narrative poem.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to rewrite one of the verses from a narrative poem by adding alternative rhymes and using modal verbs to suggest possibilities about events.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore how poets use figurative language to describe settings and characters when narrating a story. 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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