A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Poetry

This wonderful collection loses nothing of its power to excite, enthuse and inspire. Immerse your class in these classic, timeless poems. Study verbs/tense and extend sentences.

Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.

Unit 1 Core: Reading poems, identifying rhyme and writing rhyming couplets (suggested as 4 days)

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Planning and Activities

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

You Will Need

Poems in resources
All poems are taken from A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Websites
Rhyming dictionary from poetry4kids.com
A Child’s Garden of Verses in e-book form from gutenberg.org

Unit 2 SPaG: Verbs and tenses (suggested as 4 days)

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Planning and Activities

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

You Will Need

Poems in resources
All poems are taken from A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stephenson

Presentations
PowerPoint SPaG: Verb Tenses
PowerPoint Resources: Robert Louis Stevenson - Illustrated versions of six of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poems with accompanying audio readings.

Unit 3 SPaG: Defining main clauses, subordinate clauses and conjunctions (suggested as 4 days)

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Planning and Activities

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

You Will Need

Poems in resources
All poems are taken from A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Presentations
PowerPoint SPaG: Adding Description using Conjunctions and Prepositions
PowerPoint Resources: Robert Louis Stevenson - Illustrated versions of six of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poems with accompanying audio readings.

Unit 4 Composition: Exploring and responding to atmosphere and imagination in poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (suggested as 5 days)

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Planning and Activities

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

You Will Need

Poems in resources
All poems are taken from A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Presentations
PowerPoint SPaG: Adding Description using Conjunctions and Prepositions
PowerPoint Resource: Robert Louis Stevenson - Illustrated versions of six of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poems with accompanying audio readings.

Phonics: Code-Breakers

Code-Breakers is a synthetic phonics programme that teaches phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences (PGCs) in a systematic, child-friendly fashion.

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SPaG Presentations

Many Hamilton units come with interactive Grammar Presentations integrated into the overall teaching and textual context. Alternatively, these presentations can be used as stand-alone whiteboard sessions. Try your year group below.

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Group Readers

Group Readers are are charmingly illustrated short books written to facilitate reading and comprehension progression from Reception right through to Year 6.

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English Year 3 Spring Classic Poems