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Composition: Compare poems about monsters and write an appreciation.

English Year 1/2
This unit is part of Year 1/2 Mixed Age English Planning Monsters

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Group Readers

What are Monsters Like? 

This text uses simple rhyming couplets to create a simple text which children can engage with. The repeated pattern and colourful illustrations will encourage children to identify rhymes and comparisons and to develop their own ideas too.

You Will Need

Essential Texts:
What are Monsters Like? Hamilton Group Reader
In Every Corner Hamilton Group Reader

Poems in Resources:
‘The Monster’ Emily Hjeltnes
‘Monster’ by Richard Edwards

Group Readers

In Every Corner
There are friendly monsters hiding in the corners of this delightful book getting up to all sorts of things. This lovely story provides opportunities for looking at rhyme and a range of sentence punctuation.

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