Lesson Three – Weather Seasons
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise selecting vocabulary words to use in personification phrases to describe the weather that can be experienced in different seasons of the year.
The class can identify and describe the structure and descriptive language used in a poem by referencing examples from the text.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting vocabulary words to use in personification phrases to describe the weather that can be experienced in different seasons of the year
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how poets use personification phrases to compare seasonal weather to make it appear as a person when reading Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson and a template to record vocabulary words that can be used in personification phrases to describe the weather in different seasons of the year.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore vocabulary words that can be used in personification phrases to describe the weather in different seasons of the year.
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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