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Literacy
... Poetry ...

Types of Poems
• Autobiographical Poems
• Cinquain

Hoban, Russel
• The Friendly Cinnamon Bun
  *See activity - comparison with fast Food (at the bottom of the page)
  *Personification sentence starters

Milne, A.A
• In the Fashion
• In The Fashion - Poem
• Sentence Builder

Rossetti
• Colours
• The Hen
• Three Plum Buns
• Who Has Seen the Wind

Adjectives / Adjectival phrases in Poetry Word work suggestion: Use one of the poems to identify adjectival phrases, during independent work children could use another poem to repeat the activity
• Giant Thunder - Reeves, James
  
• Thunder Sound wav
• Another Thunder Sound wav
• Grandpa is Very Old - Harrison, Gregory
  
• Gorilla - Honeysett, Martin
• The Sea - Reeves, James
  A fantastic poem comparing the sea with a dog.

Figurative Language in Poetry
*Word work suggestion: collect adjectives to describe different nouns (e.g. different seasons). Use examples that can be used by LA children during independent activity.


Poems become more complex as you work down this list.

• The Spring Wind - Zolotow, Charlotte
  *HA: Use similar style to describe seasons
  *LA: Cloze procedure - children to describe wind from another season and fill in their own adjectives

Limerick
• Limericks
• Complete this limerick Table - to answer questions about limericks
• Complete these limerics

Nonsense Poetry
• Jabberwocky

Rhythm poetry

Poems become more complex as you work down this list.
This should help with differentiation.

• Jemima Jane
• Swinging
• My Mother Says I'm Sickening
• Night Mail
• Michael Rosen Rap
• How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix - Robert Browning
  *A rhythm poem
  *Explanation and ideas

Simile Poetry
Worksheets:
• Animal Simile Poem - writing frame
• Cat Simile Poem - writing frame

Other
• Fast Food
• Oh I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth
• Spaghetti Spaghetti
• My Shadow
• Mice Poem
  

  This poem works well as a poetry frame idea.
  We give the children pictures of animals for them to label first the nouns, then any description and use this together with the writing frame modelled from the poem.

Food ComparisionWorksheets:

• HA Activity:
  Compare 'Fast Food' and 'Spaghetti Spaghetti'
• MA Activity:
  Compare 'Fast Food' and 'The Friendly Cinnamon Bun'
• LA Activity:
  (no comparision) Fast Food Questions and Fast Food Keywords pg 1, Fast Food Keywords pg 2

Lesson Plan
• Week Lesson Plan
  Refers to a different poem for four days - ending with writing own poem on Friday

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