Lesson Five – Poetry Verses
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to select and structure some special vocabulary word phrases to use in an extra verse for a poem describing the season of summer.
The class can practise writing example similes and metaphors to compare the summer to other objects, ideas and feelings to use when composing their extra poetry verses.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to select and structure some special vocabulary word phrases to use in an extra verse for a poem describing the season of summer
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how and why poets use figurative language when describing a season of the year when reading a A Summer Afternoon by James Wilcox Riley and a worksheet to practise writing an extra verse for a poem describing the season of summer.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to structure vocabulary word phrases to use in an extra verse for a poem describing the season of summer.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select figurative imagery to describe different seasons of the year for use in poetry, investigate spellings of words with different suffix endings and use modal verbs to compose lines of poetry. 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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