Lesson Planning
Poetry
English Year 5 Autumn Poetic Language
Making the Ordinary Extraordinary!
Make the ordinary extraordinary! Enjoy modern & classic poems. Explore apt word choices & imagery (simile, metaphor, personification), expanded noun phrases & relative clauses.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Features of poems: expanded noun phrases
(suggested as 3 days)
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SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Resources
Some objects in a bag: a nail, a small mirror, a star shape, a magic wand, a packet of sparklers, a candle, coins, a fishing net, a fish.
Poems
The Words of Poems by Carol Ann Duffy (see resources)
A Matter of Holes by Grace Nichols (see resources)
Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney (see resources)
Additional poems (see resources)
Presentations
SPAG PowerPoint: Nouns and noun phrases
Unit 2 Composition: Expand vocabulary; explore metaphor/imagery
(suggested as 2 days)
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Poems
Sky-Artist by Grace Nichols (see resources)
Don't be Scared by Carol Ann Duffy (see resources)
Presentations
Resource PowerPoint: Sky Paintings
Unit 3 SPAG: Personification and imagery in poetry, relative clauses
(suggested as 3 days)
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SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
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Poems
Sir Autumn by Grace Nichols (see resources)
Nightwriter by Tony Mitton (see resources)
Fishing by Rachel Rooney (see resource)
Halloween's Crumble by Joseph Coelho (see resources)
Six Facts About by Rachel Rooney (see resources)
Presentations
SPAG PowerPoint: Relative clauses
Unit 4 Composition: Write poem, using relative clauses & expanded noun phrases
(suggested as 3 days)
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You Will Need
Poems
Quicksilver by Roger McGough (see resources)
I am a Writer by Joseph Coelho (see resources)
Websites
Listen to poets perform