- Year 4
Comparing Joseph Coelho's poems 'Teetering Towers' and 'City Kids'
I can compare two of Joseph Coelho’s poems: ‘Teetering Towers’ and ‘City Kids’.
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- Year 4
Comparing Joseph Coelho's poems 'Teetering Towers' and 'City Kids'
I can compare two of Joseph Coelho’s poems: ‘Teetering Towers’ and ‘City Kids’.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Reading and re-reading poems leads to a richer response and a greater understanding of language within the poem.
- Engaging in conversations about poems allows us to make connections with our own lives and the world around us.
- Comparing poems involves exploring the themes, structures and language within them.
- A theme is a big idea, topic or message that recurs in a poem.
Keywords
Poem - a piece of writing that uses creative and rhythmic language to express thoughts, feelings or ideas
Language - includes the words, phrases and techniques used by the poet to convey meaning, evoke emotions and create imagery within the poem
Theme - a big idea, topic or message that recurs within a text
Comparing - identifying similarities and differences between two or more things, ideas, themes or texts
Common misconception
Pupils might think that all poems must include rhyming words.
Use 'Teetering Towers' to exemplify that not all poems include rhyming words, but they can still follow a pattern and have a rythmic, musical quality.
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