- Year 3
Joseph Coelho poetry: learning and reciting a poem by heart
I can learn and recite part of a poem by heart.
Copyrighted materials: to view and download resources from this lesson, you’ll need to be in the UK and
- Year 3
Joseph Coelho poetry: learning and reciting a poem by heart
I can learn and recite part of a poem by heart.
Copyrighted materials: to view and download resources from this lesson, you’ll need to be in the UK and
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.
These resources were created for remote use during the pandemic and are not designed for classroom teaching.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Learning a poem by heart means you can say it from memory.
- Reciting a poem means to say it aloud after learning it.
- Saying the poem out loud many times will help when learning it by heart.
- We can follow four steps to learn a poem by heart: 'Hear it', 'Read it', 'Check it', 'Practise it'.
Keywords
Recite - to speak or perform a poem aloud from memory
By heart - to learn something in such a way that you can say it from memory
Common misconception
Pupils may think that the only way to learn something by heart is to keep reading it.
Teach pupils that they can also check their progress with cloze procedure exercises.
To help you plan your year 3 English lesson on: Joseph Coelho poetry: learning and reciting a poem by heart, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 3 English lesson on: Joseph Coelho poetry: learning and reciting a poem by heart, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
Explore more key stage 2 English lessons from the Poet focus: 'Werewolf Club Rules' by Joseph Coelho unit, dive into the full primary English curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
All of the Joseph Coelho poems studied in this unit are available in the additional materials.
Licence
Sign in to continue
Our content remains 100% free, but to access certain copyrighted materials, you'll need to sign in. This ensures we’re both staying within the rules.
P.S. Signing in also gives you more ways to make the most of Oak like unit downloads!
