Lesson Three – Poetry Characters

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to devise and record expanded noun phrases using commas to separate images to describe a character in the narrative poem of the Lady of Shalott.

The class can suggest how and why poets use specific language in a poem to create effects and moods when describing places and characters in their writing.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to devise and record expanded noun phrases using commas to separate images to describe a character in the narrative poem of the Lady of Shalott

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.

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