Lesson Two – Poetry Similes
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select special vocabulary words that can be used to construct a range of similes describing different characters in the narrative poem of the Lady of Shalott.
The class can explain and illustrate how poets use figurative language to express ideas and themes in a poem about what happened in a story.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select special vocabulary words that can be used to construct a range of similes describing different characters 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 set of differentiated worksheets to construct similes to describe and compare characters in a poem to other things, ideas and feelings,
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select vocabulary that can be used to construct similes describing different characters 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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