Activities can be accessed below,
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Poetry |
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Objective |
Whole Class Work
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Group or Individual Activities |
Plenary/ |
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Activity 1 |
Guided reading. |
Phonic groups Phase 2- ZZ Phase 3- SH Phase 4- LG
LG- ‘ew’, ‘ue’, ‘u_e’ Brainstorm ideas on whiteboards- put into tables.
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Share adjectives sentence with a partner |
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Activity 2 |
Identify the features of a poem. |
Phonics- ‘ew’, ‘ue’, ‘u_e’ Share the poem- ‘The Sound Collector’ PPT and listen to Roger McGough reading it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/roger-mcgough-the-sound-collector-poem-only/8836.html
Talk about what the children think the sound collector looks like, what kind of character is he? |
Talk about the structure of the poem- talk about the rhythm- children tap it out. What is repetitive about the poem? (verbs and ‘of’) Talk about rhyming words- children come up to the board and highlight these features.
Children stick poem in books- highlight verbs and rhyming words. |
Children choose their favourite line from the poem and change the verb. Make a list of these. |
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Activity 3 |
Rewrite a poem |
SPAG- there, their and they’re- children complete sentences correctly. Record in books.
Re-read ‘The Sound Collector’.
Talk about sounds you might hear in a house- brainstorm ideas. Children write a couple of poem lines on their whiteboards. Share with the rest of the class- check the children understand how to write using the poem structure (‘The ------ of the ------) |
Children fill in the poem with their own ideas about the sounds in a house. Working in groups- LA- very structured. HA- independent.
Allow children time to perform their poem. |
Make a list of all the other places in school we could hear sounds (playground, dinner hall etc). |
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Activity 4 |
Write own poem based on ‘The Sound Collector’ |
SPAG- children write their own sentences for there, their and they’re. Share with partner, are they correct?
Explain that we will be writing a poem about the sound collector in our school. We don’t need to worry about ryming. Show children my poem about the sound collector in a park.
In groups- children complete a spider diagram about sounds they can hear in a classroom.
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Give children first paragraph of ‘The Sound Collector in School’. Shared write the first couple of lines about sounds in the classroom.
Children write the next 2 lines. Extension- children could write a second paragraph. |
Share poem with talk partner- have they met the WILF? |
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Activity 5
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BIG WRITE- Write a poem based on ‘The Sound Collector’. |
Brainstorm about the sounds you might hear on the playground- children sitting outside, recording sounds.
Children write a line on their whiteboard- share with the class. |
Children finish their poem- Sounds in the classroom, playground, dinnerhall and cloak room.
Extension- where else could the Sound collector go? Write a poem based elsewhere. |
Poetry performance! |
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