Planning and Activities
Poetry
English Year 2 Summer Poetic Language
Really Looking at Birds
Using a wide range of poems about birds, look at poetic language and imagery. Learn favourite poems off by heart. Study noun phrases; use correct punctuation in writing about poems.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Read poems and appreciate poetic language and imagery
(suggested as 4 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Poems
(All in resources)
The Day of the Gulls by Jennifer Curry
Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare
To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth
Additional poems (see resources)
Weblinks
How birds use their wings from www.bbc.co.uk
Unit 2 SPAG Understand and use noun phrases in writing description
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Poems
Bird poetry (in resources)
Presentations
SPaG – PowerPoint on Noun Phrases
Unit 3 Comprehension: Read and compare poems; learn poems by heart and recite these
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Poems
(All in Resources)
A Bird by Emily Dickinson
Little Robin Red Breast by Anon
Time to Rise by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ducks Ditty by Kenneth Grahame
Unit 4 SPAG Use correct sentence punctuation: capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas
(suggested as 3 days)
Planning and Activities
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Poems
(All in Resources)
The Starlings by Jesper Svenbro
Owl by Pie Corbett
Owl on the Nursery Window Sill by Katherine Gallagher
Unit 5 Composition: Plan and write a poem based on Tennyson’s Eagle
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Poems
The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (see resources)