Reading 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' by James Carter
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Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can listen to and discuss 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.
Key learning points
- A chorus is a part of a poem that repeats again and again.
- Onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like what it is describing.
- Poems can make the listener think about their own experiences.
- Repetition adds to the rhythm of the poem helping to make it fun to read and easy to remember.
- Splish! Splash! Splosh! uses lots of descriptive words to talk about different sensory experiences about water.
Keywords
Chorus - part of a song or rhyme that is repeated after every verse
Senses - seeing, smelling, hearing, touching and tasting
Repetition - the repeated use of sounds, words or phrases
Onomatopoeia - a type of word that sounds like what it describes
Rhyme - repetition in the sounds at the end of words
Common misconception
Children may think that all words with similar sounds rhyme.
Explain that words need to have the same sound at the end to rhyme. Look at words that rhyme and words that do not rhyme, but have the same sound in the middle.
Teacher tip
Provide plenty of opportunities for children to listen to the poem. You could use different instruments or classroom objects to make different sounds and the children could make the sounds at the relevant points when you read the poem aloud.
Equipment
The poem used in this lesson is available in the additional materials.
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