In this text-based, 5 session English planning, a wide variety of poems are explored linking to the theme of the sea. Pupils experiment with personification and learn a range of descriptive techniques. They use a map of the world to plan events for a poetic sea journey.

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:

• Build vocabulary
• Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations
• Use spoken language: speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
• Speak audibly and fluently
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates

Reading comprehension:

• Read and discuss a wide range of texts
• Identify and discuss themes and conventions
• Learn poetry by heart
• Prepare poems and plays 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
• Describe settings, characters and atmosphere
• Propose changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
• Use consistent and correct tense
•  Perform own compositions using appropriate intonation, volume and movement

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

All poems for this unit can be found in: I Am the Seed that Grows the Tree: A nature poem for every day of the year edited by Fiona Waters.

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