Reading and responding to 'The Morning Rush' by John Foster

English

Performing the poem 'The Morning Rush' by John Foster

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Responding to 'What Did You Do at School Today?' by James Carter and other poems

In this unit, pupils use a range of different poems from different poets to explore how they use language choice and poetic devices to create humour. In Poet focus: Joseph Coelho’, pupils will concentrate on one poet and how he evokes different emotional responses from the reader.’

In Poetry: The Magic Box’, pupils read, responded to and used Kit Wright's poem as inspiration to write their own imaginative poem. In this unit, pupils will build on this by using several different poems from different authors to explore how those devices are used by others.’

In this unit, pupils read and respond to a variety of humorous poems by different poets. They will learn about the poets, explore the meaning and themes within each poem and identify the poetic devices used. Pupils will practise reading each poem aloud with expression to convey meaning.

Humorous poetry

True or false? Humour is when something makes a person laugh or smile because it is funny or silly.

True or false? Humorous poetry means poems that have been written to be serious, sad and make the reader cry.

John Foster is known for his engaging and humorous poetry for ...

True or false? Repetition is when a single word, or group of words, is repeated for effect.

True or false? Poetry is a form of non-fiction text.

Which of these are often found in children's poetry?

a way of describing a non-living thing as if it acts or feels like a human

the similarity of sounds between the ending syllables of words

True or false? Everyone will respond to poems in the same way. 

Reading and responding to 'The Morning Rush' by John Foster

Lesson outcome