In this text based, 5 session English planning, word play and puns are explored through a variety of engaging animal poetry. Pupils research their own animals, creating nonsense words of their own. They think about techniques to make their poem ‘ear-catching’, focusing on adjectives, alliteration and subordination.

All aspects of poetry from the national curriculum in reading, spoken language and writing composition will be covered across the full set Au1-Su2.

National curriculum skills for this unit:

Spoken language:

• Listen and respond
• Build vocabulary
• Speak audibly and fluently
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates

Reading comprehension:

• Learn poetry by heart
• Prepare poems for performance
• Check sense, discuss understanding and explore meaning of words in context
• Identify how language structure and presentation contribute to meaning
• Evaluate authors’ language choice

Writing composition:

• Note and develop initial ideas, drawing on reading and research
• Enhance meaning through selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary
• Propose changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
• Perform own compositions using appropriate intonation, volume and movement

For schools that use Pathways to Write, this unit aligns with the summer 2 set 1 unit.

Poems for this unit can be found online and in: The Works Anthology (Red) by Paul Cookson.

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