Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to identify and make corrections and improvements to example poems that contain expanded noun phrases describing a visit to a special location in the local community ready for performance to the class.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to draft and edit poems using expanded noun phrases to describe a visit to a special location in the local community.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to create descriptive images to use in poetry to describe different places in the local community, identify and record the double meanings of words that are homonyms and build expanded noun phrases using powerful adjectives and prepositions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.