refers to the act of presenting or reciting a poem in front of an audience, utilising vocal delivery, gestures, and expressions to enhance the impact of the poem.

reading with feelings and emotion to bring the story to life

the loudness or softness of the voice when speaking or reading a poem, allowing for variations in intensity and expression

Nursery rhymes performance

English

'Little Bo Peep'

'Hickory Dickory Dock'

'Five Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day'

'The Magic Porridge Pot'

In 'Poetry: Zim Zam Zoom', pupils will listen to, discuss, learn and perform a selection of poems by James Carter and discuss what a poet is.

In EYFS, pupils learnt to listen to and sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs. Pupils learnt to try to move in time with music. In this unit, pupils will build on this by performing nursery rhymes in a small group, dedicating more time to discussing and contexualising the rhymes and expressing a preference.

In this unit, pupils explore poetry by learning different nursery rhymes, some familiar and some unfamiliar. Pupils learn to listen to, discuss and recite nursery rhymes. They also consider rhyming words, tune and actions. Pupils learn to share their opinion on their preferred nursery rhyme.

Nursery rhymes: reading poetry

Select the words from ‘Little Bo Peep’ that rhyme with each other.

What does the mouse in 'Hickory Dickory Dock' run up?

Mummy Duck said, "quack quack quack quack".

Put the events from 'Five Little Ducks' in the correct order.

Identify the line from 'The Magic Porridge Pot' that has repeated words.

Nursery rhymes and fairy tales are similar because ...

What is the same about 'Hickory Dickory Dock' and '5 Little Ducks'?

Starter Quiz

What do most nursery rhymes have?