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Poetry - Exploring the Senses
Objectives
To begin to use the voice to add expression when reading aloud.
To think imaginatively.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencils | Pens
📄 Poetry Pack 2 | Moon Tour (YouTube) | 📄 First Dog on the Moon by David Orme | 📄 Dog on the Moon writing sheet
📄 Sound Flashcards 6 | 📄 Sound Flashcards 7 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | 📄 Pre-Joining Patterns sheets
Vocabulary
Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary
sound | letter | blend | split | capital letter | story | meaning | character | storyteller | sentence | full stop | expression | phrase
Today's Lesson
What to Get Ready
Have the new set of sound flashcards, 📄 Sound Flashcards 7, printed, trimmed and ready to use in this series of lessons, along with previous sets of sound flashcards.
Write the words from 'Blend to Read' (below) on 📄 blank flashcards.
Print the poem ‘That’s What I Like’ from 📄 Poetry Pack 2 and read in preparation for today’s lesson.
Phonics - Quick Fire!
Quick recognition of sounds.
Phonics - New Learning
Tell your student that they will be learning ways of writing the sound ‘s’.
Show your student the 📄 flashcard ‘s’. We already know that this letter can make the sound ‘s’ as in ‘sit’. This letter can often be followed by a letter ‘e’ that we cannot hear, so the letters ‘se’ together make the sound ‘s’. Tell your student that they will usually find ‘se’ at the end of a word.
There is no flashcard for ‘se’. Tell your student that all of today’s words will have ‘se’ at the end and the sound they will make is ‘s’.
Phonics - Blend to Read
goose (3) | worse (3) | mouse (3) | else (3)
Phonics - Split to Spell
house (3) | loose (3) | horse (3) | nurse (3)
Phonics - Extra Support
Show your student how to blend to read/split to spell the first word in each activity.
Phonics - Extra Challenge
grease (4) | reverse (5) | increase (6)
Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.
Phonics - Apply
Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the nurse had loose coins in her purse. 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.
Reading & Writing - Introduction
Support your student as they read the poem ‘That’s What I Like’ from 📄 Poetry Pack 2.
Tell them that today they will be thinking about how we use our voice to add expression to words we find interesting.
Ask your student to use a pencil to draw a circle around the words they find interesting in the poem. Ask why they have chosen those words.
For example, they might choose ‘crunch’ because it’s a noisy word or ‘sweeties’ because they like eating them.
Read the poem through again.
Tell your student that in the next lesson they will be practising reading some of these words with added expression.
Reading & Writing - Main Activity
Ask your student to tell you everything they know about the Moon.
Share the Moon Tour video with your student. You may choose to just watch part of it depending on the attention span of your student.
While you are watching the video, talk to your student about what you can see!
Reading & Writing - Apply
Read your student the poem 📄 First Dog on the Moon by David Orme.
Ask your student:
Are there any words they don’t understand?
Are there any confusing parts?
What do they like about the poem?
What senses does the dog use during the poem?
Talk to your student about how the author will not have gone to the Moon, so they have used their imagination to write the poem.
Talk with your student about what ‘imagination’ means.
Explain that today your student will be thinking about what the dog might see and touch on the Moon. Say that today we will be coming up with of lots of ideas and during future lessons we will be turning these ideas into sentences.
Show your student the 📄 Dog on the Moon writing sheet and read the writing in the first box.
Ask your student to write in the box as many ideas as they can think of about what the dog might hear.
Explain that, like the author, they have not been to the Moon, so they will have to use their imagination.
Repeat with the second box about what the dog can touch.
Encourage your student to write down all the ideas they have and encourage the development of more imaginative ideas.
Reading & Writing - What to Notice
While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.
For example:
‘What a fantastic idea.’
‘Great use of your imagination!’
‘I can see you sounding out that word really carefully.’
Reading & Writing - Handwriting and Spelling
This step you will have chosen to either continue to practise individual letter shapes or work on 📄 Pre-Joining Patterns sheets.
Continue with this at the end of every lesson this step.