'The Magic Box': reading imaginative poetry
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Why this why now
This unit builds on the Y1 unit, 'Poetry: Nursery Rhymes', where pupils were introduced to several different nursery rhymes and began to explore the poetic devices used. In this unit, they will build on this by extending the repertoire of poems they've read and responded to and by looking at more poetic devices, such as similes. Pupils use Kit Wright's poem, 'The Magic Box', as a stimulus for writing their own imaginative poems. This unit prepares pupils for the future unit, 'Humorous Poetry', where they will build on their experience of poetry by exploring humorous poems by different poets.
Prior knowledge requirements
- To know how to write a simple sentence with a capital letter and full stop
- To know that an adjective describes a noun
- To know that when you use two adjectives to describe a noun, a comma is placed between them
- To know that adverbs describe verbs
- To know that poetry is a form of writing
- To know that a poet is the name for a person who writes poetry
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Why this why now
This unit builds on the Y1 unit, 'Poetry: Nursery Rhymes', where pupils were introduced to several different nursery rhymes and began to explore the poetic devices used. In this unit, they will build on this by extending the repertoire of poems they've read and responded to and by looking at more poetic devices, such as similes. Pupils use Kit Wright's poem, 'The Magic Box', as a stimulus for writing their own imaginative poems. This unit prepares pupils for the future unit, 'Humorous Poetry', where they will build on their experience of poetry by exploring humorous poems by different poets.
Prior knowledge requirements
- To know how to write a simple sentence with a capital letter and full stop
- To know that an adjective describes a noun
- To know that when you use two adjectives to describe a noun, a comma is placed between them
- To know that adverbs describe verbs
- To know that poetry is a form of writing
- To know that a poet is the name for a person who writes poetry
Reading, writing & oracy
'The Magic Box': reading imaginative poetry
In this unit, pupils read and respond to three different imaginative poems by different poets. They will write their own imaginative poems following the same structure as 'The Magic Box'. Finally, pupils will perform their own poems to an audience.
5 lessons in unit
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