Key Stage Two English Poetry – Year Four

Discover lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Year Four in Key Stage Two to teach about writing poetry

Pumpkins

Select powerful vocabulary to use in poetry containing similes that can describe Halloween pumpkins

Spooky Night

Select and use descriptive language in poetry to describe spooky sights and shadows that might be seen in a bedroom at night during Halloween

Halloween Show

Review and redraft poems describing spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween to use in a performance to the class

Halloween Night

Select and use descriptive vocabulary in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween night

Spooky Sounds

Practise using powerful adjectives to describe some of the spooky sounds that might be heard in a bedroom at night

Spooky Shadows

Select and use descriptive vocabulary to describe shadows seen in a bedroom at nighttime

Nighttime

Explore and suggest changes to descriptive vocabulary used in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds during the night