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.