This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select a range of nouns and adjectives to use in poems about a firework display on Bonfire Night. The class can match and list synonyms for different adjectives that can be used to describe sights and sounds seen and heard at a firework display.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select a range of nouns and adjectives to use in poems about a firework display on Bonfire Night

Learning Objectives

Use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify. Select vocabulary to write poetry describing objects, ideas and experiences.

Learning Outcomes

I can use adjectives to describe a noun in a sentence. I can write a poem about something using descriptive vocabulary.

Fireworks

Teaching sequence to help the children select a range of nouns and adjectives to use in poems about a firework display on Bonfire Night

Fireworks

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children describe the sights, sounds and movements of different fireworks seen on Bonfire Night

What Fireworks

Shared reading text to help the children identify adjectives used to describe nouns about fireworks and suggest matching synonyms for the vocabulary

Firework Words

Activity cards to help the children select and match pairs of adjectives to describe fireworks that have similar meanings

Fireworks Poem

Template to help the children select adjectives to describe nouns in a poem about fireworks seen and heard on Bonfire Night

Fireworks

Interactive activity to help the children select a range of nouns and adjectives to use in poems about a firework display on Bonfire Night

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select a range of nouns and adjectives to use in poems about a firework display on Bonfire Night

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