Lesson Four – Poetry Lines

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to combine collected vocabulary words to compose matching lines for an example poem describing a special location.
The class can record how to match powerful adjectives and prepositions to use in expanded noun phrases for poems to describe somewhere such as a pond or playground.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to combine collected vocabulary words to compose matching lines for an example poem describing a special location
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to select and record some powerful adjectives and prepositions that can be combined together in expanded noun phrases to use in a poem describing a special place that can be visited by family and friends.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to combine collected words to compose lines for a poem describing a special location.
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.
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