The Highwayman KS2 BUNDLE of lessons!

“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter. This BUNDLE of lessons covers the following (Most of these lessons provide 2- 3 hours of teaching material): -2x lessons- Whole-Class Guided Reading (on both Parts of the poem. Differentiated comprehension questions given as well as answers) -Exploring figurative language in the poem (identifying use of metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia and considering what impact they have before writing own versions). -Rewriting the poem as prose (links to video clips of the poem to evaluate as well as WAGOLLS given to support writing the poem as a story). -Exploring characters (Roll on the Wall activity and character cards supporting inference and deduction skills). -Character diary entry (features of diaries explored as well as WAGOLLs and a writing frame to write own diary entry). -Balanced argument (features of balanced argument explored as well as structure support, WAGOLLS and a writing frame).