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Year 5

Poetry about personal experiences

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  • Appreciation of poetry
  • Modern literature strand 1: identity, belonging and community

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In this unit, pupils read, respond to and perform a variety of poems by different poets. They explore many themes, including love, hope, belonging, hate and resilience. Finally, pupils write their own poem about a personal experience.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of writing poetry from the Y4 unit, 'Poetry inspired by weather'. In this unit, pupils will revisit a range of poetic forms and devices and build on their learning by reading, responding to and writing poems linked to feelings, relationships and experiences. Through the different poems, pupils will explore and discuss some complex themes. This unit prepares pupils for 'Poetry of place', where they will build on these experiences, reading and analysing classic and contemporary poetry that evokes a strong sense of place, before writing their own.

  1. Exploring themes of identity in 'Back to Me', 'Find Me', 'Friend' and 'Everyone'
  2. Exploring themes of sadness in 'The Land of Blue'
  3. Exploring themes of resilience in 'One of These Days' and 'Being Heard'
  4. Reading, responding to and performing 'In the Heart of a Book'
  5. Writing a poem about a personal experience
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