Ancient Egyptian Poetry

This complete Ancient Egyptian Poetry KS2 planning pack comes with all you need to teach your Year 3 class about a range of different poetry. With the lesson ideas in this scheme, your KS2 class will investigate acrostic poetry, kennings and free verse poems. The teaching input slides help you to guide the children in generating poetic language and ideas for their poems as well as the steps they need to take to create their own Ancient-Egyptian-themed poetry.

Generating Poetic Language

This Year 3 poetry planning lesson provides you with everything you will need to help your KS2 class generate and discuss poetic devices and language.

In preparation for writing Ancient-Egyptian-themed poetry, the lesson slides and printable resources will help guide your class in generating themed language to use when writing poems in the following lesson. They will discuss different poetic devices, focusing on repetition, alliteration and similes, which will then be used in the later lessons in this scheme.

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Ancient Egypt Acrostic Poems

This Ancient Egypt Acrostic Poems lesson pack will challenge your Year 3 class to write their own Ancient Egypt acrostic poems.

Using the accompanying resources, the children will explore an example poem and identify features of the poem which they like. They are encouraged to spot alliteration in the example and then use this poetic device in their own poem. They will use the language and vocabulary that they generated in the previous lesson to build up their poems and are challenged to attempt different types of acrostic poems in the Fancy Something Different task.

This Ancient Egypt Acrostic Poems lesson comes fully prepared and ready to teach. There's an easy-to-follow lesson plan with differentiation, a slideshow for the teaching input and a range of printable teaching resources to support your class as they write their own ancient Egyptian acrostics.

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Ancient Egyptian Kenning Poems

This kenning poems KS2 lesson plan introduces your Year 3 class to kennings and how they're written. They focus on the spelling rule of adding -er to verbs to make nouns and using this to help them create a riddle poem.

Using the supporting resources, the children choose an aspect of Ancient Egypt they would like to write about and use their learning to create metaphorical descriptions of their chosen subject.

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Egyptian Free Verse Poetry

In this free verse poetry KS2 lesson your Year 3 class are challenged to abandon the structural rules for different types of poetry and try their hand at a free verse poem themed around Ancient Egypt.

The children can use the provided example of a free verse poem to practise how these types of poems can be performed, using tone, intonation and pauses to add emphasis to words and phrases. Using the teaching input slides, they will have the opportunity to discuss the poet's choices about line length and poetic devices used in the poem before attempting to recreate this in their own Ancient Egyptian poem.

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