This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record the correct spellings and matching definitions of a range of different words that contain the ie letter string.

The class can practise using some of the words with the matching letter string to describe places featured in the narrative poem of the Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and record the correct spellings and matching definitions of a range of different words that contain the ie letter string

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how poets use figurative language to describe settings in a narrative poem, a worksheet to select and record the matching definitions of different words that contain the ie letter string and a set of cards to identify and match the correct spellings of words with ie.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the matching definitions of different words that contain the ie letter string.

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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