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Poetry

Objectives

To learn and recite simple poems.

To group words into short phrases when reading aloud.

Resources

Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencil | Paper

📄 Sound Flashcards 3 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | 📄 Poetry Pack | Rocket Rescue - Phase 3 (Phonics Play) | 📄 Simple Regular Verb Cards

Vocabulary

Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary.

Today's Lesson

What to Get Ready

Have the poems ‘Worm’ by Spike Milligan (two copies needed) and ‘Apple and the Worm’ from the 📄 Poetry Packready to read in today’s lesson.

Have the Reading Tips ready (included in the 📄 Poetry Pack).

Write the words from 'Blend to Read' (below) on 📄 blank flashcards.

Print off and cut up the 📄 Simple Regular Verb Cards and place them in a pile.

Phonics - Quick Fire!

Quick recognition of sounds.

Phonics - New Learning

Today’s new grapheme is ‘v’ as in ‘van’.

Show your student the flashcard and teach them the sound.

Phonics - Blend to Read

vest (4) | very (4) | vanish (5)

Phonics - Split to Spell

vent (4) | invest (6) | invent (6)

Phonics - Extra Support

vet (3) | vat (3)

Phonics - Extra Challenge

seven (5) | vitamin (7) | inventing (8) | investing (8)

Phonics - Apply

Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the seven vans vanish. Then ask your student to read the caption.

If your student finds caption reading easy, rather than you writing the caption, you can say the caption and they can write it on the whiteboard.

Phonics Play

PLAY - Rocket Rescue - Phase 3 (Phonics Play)

Select 'Start'. Select 'Phase 3'.

Reading & Writing - Introduction

Ask your student to read ‘Apple and the Worm’ to you, making the reading sound exciting, like a performer. Tell your student that when performers perform poetry, they often like to use movement as well as their voices to make the performance interesting and exciting

Support your student as they read ‘Worm’ by Spike Milligan. Remind them that they can use their Reading Tips.

Now ask your student to look at the second copy of the poem. Which words could be words that have a movement or action to go with them? What could the movement be?

Your student can use a pen to underline words that could be made more interesting by adding a movement or action, for example, wiggle.

Share your ideas for different movements and ask your student to show you the movements they have chosen.

Reading & Writing - New Learning

Look at the 📄 Simple Regular Verb Cards together. Read through them one at a time.

Play a game of ‘Simon Says’ with the cards.

For example: ‘Simon says hop,’ ‘Simon says jump,’ and so on.

You may remember playing this game in previous lessons, and there is also a link to a video explaining how to play in the Web Links resource document.

Reading & Writing - Main Activity

Explain to your student that verbs can change depending on when the action is happening.

For example, if we wanted to use the verb ‘crawl’ then we change it to ‘is crawling’ if the creature is doing it now, in the present.

Choose a different verb card (for example, ‘jump’) and write it in a sentence on a mini whiteboard.

For example: ‘The man is jumping.’

Explain that you have changed ‘jump’ into ‘is jumping’ to show that the action is happening now.

Reading & Writing - Apply

Take turns to choose a card from the pile.

Whoever picks the card then reads the verb on the card and makes up a sentence which uses that verb.

For example, if you pick the verb ‘laugh’ you could say, ‘The clown is laughing.’

Continue picking cards and putting the verbs into sentences until all the cards have been used.

Reading & Writing - Extra Support

If your student needs extra support to find words to add movements to, say, ‘I think the word wiggle should have a movement. What could the movement be? What is a wiggle?’

Reading & Writing - Extra Challenge

Ask your student to make the words and phrases sound interesting with movement and their voice.

Citations

[1] www.phonicsplay.co.uk