Lesson Four – Poetry Verses
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to model how to write an alternative verse for a narrative poem by selecting matching rhymes for different words to emulate the style and stricture of the writing.
The class can explain how a poet can use special vocabulary to evoke a response in the reader to specific ideas and feelings about the subject matter and events.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to model how to write an alternative verse for a narrative poem by selecting matching rhymes for different words to emulate the style and stricture of the writing
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 set of differentiated worksheets to select and list matching rhymes for different vocabulary words that feature in a narrative poem.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write an alternative verse for a narrative poem by selecting matching rhymes for different words.
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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