English Year 3 Spring Classic Poems
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
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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You Will Need
Essential Text
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)
Lesson Planning
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SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Unit 3 SPaG: Defining main clauses, subordinate clauses and conjunctions
(suggested as 4 days)
Lesson Planning
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SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Unit 4 Composition: Exploring and responding to atmosphere and imagination in poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
(suggested as 5 days)
Lesson Planning
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Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson