Letter Four – Highwayman Letter
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to compose a letter to a character from a narrative poem describing what could happen next in the sequence of events in the story.
The class can identify and explain reasons for the actions of characters in a story and suggest how they might impact what happens later in the narrative.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to compose a letter to a character from a narrative poem describing what could happen next in the sequence of events in the story
Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to identify and describe how poets use figurative language to describe people, places and events in a narrative poem and a template to help compose a letter in character to illustrate some of the main events and ideas in a narrative poem.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a letter to a character from a poem describing what could happen next in the story.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore and adapt vocabulary used in a narrative poem to describe characters and settings. 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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