Aims of Scheme

Scheme of work Concepts

(The general ideas and areas to be introduced)
Subject
Language and Literacy – Poetry (Using book – • Rhyming
and
Topic Cornerstones for Writing) • Repetition
• Layout and Punctuation
• Appropriate language
Class P3
Knowledge
(What the children will know by the end of the teaching period)
• How a poem should be read
No. of pupils 27 • How to add lines to a poem
• How to use descriptive words

Cross-curricular links
Skills
(What the children will be able to do by the end of the teaching period)
• Read a poem with expression
• Use imagination
• Invent a poem
• Change a poem

Attitudes
(How children's feeling and emotions may have been affected by the end of
the teaching period)

Children will enjoy listening to poems and telling poems. They will
have fun adding expression to a poem and changing a poem in their
own way.
Week: Date:
Learning Content: Main teaching activity Tasks: Main learning activity Plenary Assessment Resources
outcomes (What will the teacher teach? Lesson (What will the children do?) How will the lesson (What will be assessed What
(What will the description) Lesson phase 3 conclude? and how will it be materials,
children learn?) Lesson phase 1 and 2 Lesson phase 4 assessed? Relate to equipment
learning outcomes and will be
tasks set.) used?
Lesson 1 Teacher explains to children that they are Children listen to tape and think of an Discuss all the That children can Tape
going to listen to a tape of sounds. They animal as each sound plays. They will animals and see if listen carefully and from
To use their need to listen very carefully and imagine hear the sounds again and tell what they there is anything use their imagination. cornersto
imagination. what animal each sound would represent. thought each sound represented. They similar about them. Teacher will listen to nes book.
will discuss why they thought of that their opinions.
animal. Teacher will make a list of all
the animals on the blackboard.

Lesson 2 Teacher will read a poem on fierce Children will decide which way sounds Read the poem again Children can tell how
creatures to the class using different tones best. Class will have a discussion on and children can join a poem sound best.
That children of voice. fierce creatures. Which animals would in. That they can use
can identify the you like to least meet? Why? Work in descriptive words.
best tone in pairs and brainstorm a fierce creature.
which to read a
poem. That
they can use
descriptive
words to
describe a
fierce creature.
Lesson 3 Teacher will read the poem again. Talk Class will work in pairs and discuss As a class come Children can invent
Children can about the poem; introduce the notion of new lines that may be added to the together and gather a new lines that tie in
use their rhyming and repetition. What words poem. They may come up with words few lines from some with the rest of the
imagination rhyme in the poem? What lines are that could replace those already in the of the groups that they poem. They can
and invent new repeated? Could we use any other words? poem. have come up with. substitute descriptive
lines to add to Discuss what we think words with other
the poem. would they suit this appropriate ones.
That they can poem?
use appropriate
language
throughout the
poem.

Lesson 4 Going to create our own poem on a fierce Children work in pairs and use their Pairs pass poem to Children can use
Children will creature. We will use the poem we have brainstorm from lesson 2 to help them another pair and get descriptive language
be able to plan been reading as a basis for our own. We write their own poem. They use the them to read their first to plan and draft their
and create a need to plan our poem first. Teacher descriptive words from their brainstorm draft. own poem.
first draft of shows an example of planning and drafting and they use the animal they
their own a poem. brainstormed. They plan and draft their
poem. poem.

Lesson 5 We will create the final draft of our poem. Children re-read their first draft with Children can pass That children can tidy
Children will Teacher demonstrates by amending her their pair. They can make changes to it, their final draft to up a poem, adding the
be able to first draft. Explains that some colour and a lay it out in a presentable manner and another pair receive finishing touches to it
correct their nice border might help the presentation. decorate it appropriately. feedback from that both with wording and
first draft and pair on what they with presentation.
make it thought.
presentable.