Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the structure and format of a narrative poem by a significant author and worksheet to select and record powerful synonyms for different vocabulary words to write a written description of a character from a narrative poem.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select powerful synonyms for different vocabulary words that can be used to describe a character from a narrative poem.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the language style and structure of a narrative poem to retell the story using prose and other poetry styles, practise adding prefixes to roots using hyphens and use modal verbs to change poetry lines. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.