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Humorous Poems
Objectives
To use spoken language to develop understanding.
To give well-structured descriptions.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Drawing and writing pencils | Highlighters or colouring crayons | Sticky notes
📄 Daily Phonics Activities | 📄 The Vulture | 📄 If You Should Meet a Crocodile | 📄 Animal Pictures | 📄 Letter Formation Ideas
Vocabulary
Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary
poem | humour | humorous | rhyme
Today's Lesson
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.
Introduction
Return to the idea of humorous poems and ask your student to remind themselves about the bits that made them laugh in the poem they looked at in Lesson 1.
Explain that sometimes humorous poems can be about animals. This is because animals can do very funny things and behave in odd ways!
Discuss any funny things they have seen animals do, for example, their pets, animals in the garden, or in a zoo.
Next, read 📄 The Vulture and then 📄 If You Should Meet a Crocodile.
Talk with your student about what they think the animals look like. Ask: What clues to the poems give us? (For example: His head is bald.)
Main Activity
Now, look at the 📄 Animal Pictures sheet. Explain to your student that you would like them to add labels on sticky notes to each of the animals.
Encourage your student to use labels which are longer than one word. For example, rather than labelling ‘claws’ they could write ‘curved claws’ or ‘curved dirty claws’.
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.
What to Notice
While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.
For example:
‘I love the description you have added today.’
‘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.