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Humorous Poetry
Objectives
To give well-structured descriptions and explanations.
To learn to appreciate rhymes and poems.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Drawing and writing pencils | Highlighters or colouring crayons | Plain card
📄 Daily Phonics Activities | 📄 Dad and the Cat and the Tree | 📄 Picture Cards | 📄 Letter Formation Ideas
Vocabulary
Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary
poem | humour | humorous | rhyme | poetry | words
Today's Lesson
Introduction
Watch this step's introductory video with your student.
Phonics
Over the next three steps, your phonics activities will be personalised revision activities for your student.
All the instructions are included on the 📄 Daily Phonics Activities sheet.
Reading - Intorduction
Explain that over the next three steps we will be looking at a variety of types of poems.
One of these is Humorous Poetry.
Humorous poems are written to make us laugh!
Read 📄 Dad and the Cat and the Tree to your student.
Discuss their thoughts on the poem. Is it funny? Which parts made them laugh?
Then ask your student to relate the poem to their own experiences. Can they remember a time they’ve fallen? Even out of a tree or off a wall? Why is it sometimes funny if other people fall or trip? (Providing they don’t hurt themselves!)
Can they think of any times when a friend or family member has fallen off something or tripped over? Discuss their experiences.
Reading - Main Activity
Provide your student with the 📄 Picture cards from the poem. Discuss the pictures and where in the poem they might appear.
Encourage them to remember parts of the poem to help them to order the cards.
After they are happy that they have all the cards in the right order, they should look at the last picture and take it away.
What might happen if the poem ended differently? They should think about this, discuss their ideas with you, and then draw their new ending on a blank card of the same size. Remind them that it should be a funny ending!
Reading - Extra Challenge
Can your student spot any rhyming words used by the poet in these poems? Use a coloured pen or highlighter to underline these (use the same colour for each set of rhyming words. What do they notice about these words?
Reading - What to Notice
While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.
For example:
‘You looked really carefully to put those ideas in sequences.’
‘Superb listening skills!’
‘I can see you sounding out that word really carefully.’
Handwriting and Spelling
Children’s handwriting develops at different times. Have a close look at your student recent writing. Are there letter shapes that they still need to work on? If there are, please continue to choose one or two letters a day this step to focus on.
You may find your student needs to practise letters shapes they find tricky many times before they feel confident. Remember to use the 📄 Letter Formation Ideas resource.
Please revisit any spellings from Year 1 which you feel your student may need to practise more. These could be words that you see them misspelling still in their independent writing.