Planning and Activities

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.
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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
Poems
Bird poetry (in resources)
Presentations
SPaG – PowerPoint on Noun Phrases
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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
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Poems
(All in Resources)
The Starlings by Jesper Svenbro
Owl by Pie Corbett
Owl on the Nursery Window Sill by Katherine Gallagher
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Poems
The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (see resources)
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