Lesson Three – Poetry Verse Changes

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and model how to adapt and change the mood and feeling in a verse from a narrative poem about a mysterious character.

The class can practise using thesauruses to select powerful vocabulary words to use when editing a verse in a narrative poem to change its meaning.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and model how to adapt and change the mood and feeling in a verse from a narrative poem about a mysterious character

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how poets use figurative language to describe people, places and events in a narrative poem and a set of differentiated worksheets to select vocabulary to use when editing and adapting a verse from a poem to change its overall mood.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore ow to adapt and change the mood in a verse from a poem about a mysterious character.

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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