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This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select vocabulary to describe different sports and games to use in a poem about the Olympics. The class can make collections of synonyms to match sport actions to use when composing the lines for their poems about different sports and games.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select vocabulary to describe different sports and games to use in a poem about the Olympics

Learning Objectives

Discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination. Discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.

Learning Outcomes

I can say why a poet chose particular words to describe movements. I can say how a poem has been written and structured to help write a poem in a similar style.

Sports and Games

Teaching sequence to help the children select vocabulary to describe different sports and games to use in a poem about the Olympics

Sports and Games

Shared reading text to help the children identify and describe how to use descriptive vocabulary to describe different sports and games as part of the Olympics

Word Match

Activity cards to help the children select and match verbs that have similar meanings to other actions for different sports and games

Sports and Games Poem

Template to help the children structure and write a poem about different sports using synonyms to describe actions for different sports and games

Sports and Games

Interactive activity to help the children select vocabulary to describe different sports and games to use in a poem about the Olympics

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select vocabulary to describe different sports and games to use in a poem about the Olympics

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