- Home
- Canvas Guide
Partial Progress - Circles (browser only)
Poetry
Objectives
To read aloud with expression appropriate to the meaning and sound of the words.
Resources
Dictionary
Today's Lesson
Spelling
Review spelling words to prepare for your test at the end of the week. Use Spelling Frame Spelling Tiles and Type Itto learn this week's words.
What to Get Ready
Ahead of the lesson, access the three poems and browse through them.
📄 READ - Poem 1 - Firework Night
📄 READ - Poem 2 - The Crocodile
Choose a couple of poems that would be of a suitable reading challenge for your student.
Main Activity
Read the chosen poems to your student. Then ask them to read the poems with you together. Finally, ask your student to choose one of the poems to read aloud by themselves. Can they use their voice expressively, with enjoyment and feeling, to perform the poem?
Use a dictionary to check the meaning of unfamiliar words from the poems. Show your student how to use the dictionary to find words alphabetically.
Discuss the meaning of the new words and if there are any words we know that mean similar things.
Discuss any words that are not found in the dictionary and discuss why this might be. Perhaps because the words are written to sound like they are from a specific culture, so spellings may have been changed.