Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how poets use figurative language to describe characters in a narrative poem and a worksheet to select and record vocabulary to use expanded noun phrases describing a character in a narrative poem.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to devise expanded noun phrases using commas to separate images to describe a character in a narrative poem.

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.