Key Stage Two : English : Writing Composition : Poetry : Wilfred Owen
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and edit a poem by a significant poet with figurative language used to reflect ideas about conflict. The class can select and compose their own similes and metaphors to compare aspects of conflict to other things, ideas and feelings.
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Learning Objectives
Selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning. Identifying and discussing themes and conventions in poetry.
Learning Outcomes
I can say how poets use images to express different ideas and emotions about a topic. I can write similes and metaphors to express a particular idea or emotion.
Wilfred Owen
Teaching sequence to help the children investigate and edit a poem by a significant poet with figurative language used to reflect ideas about conflict
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Shared reading text for whole class discussion to help the children identify and describe the use of figurative language in poetry used to reflect ideas about conflict
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Changing Similes (support)
Activity to help the children edit figurative language to compare objects related to the first world war to other things, ideas and feelings
Wilfred Owen
Interactive activity to help the children investigate and edit a poem by a significant poet with figurative language used to reflect ideas about conflict
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to investigate and edit a poem by a significant poet with figurative language used to reflect ideas about conflict
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