Teacher Anne Girven
| YEAR |
LEVEL |
DURATION |
|---|---|---|
| 7-8 | 4 | 2-3 weeks |
| Achievement Objective Being Assessed |
Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Listening to Texts | Listen to texts (poetry), identify the purposes, recall and respond to the main ideas. |
| Using Texts | Using different text forms, recite, read aloud, and present using appropriate delivery |
| Processes | |
| Exploring language | Identify and discuss language features and their effects in a range of texts. |
| Thinking Critically | Discuss and interpret texts, considering relevant personal experiences and other points of view. |
| Supporting Achievement Objective |
Learning Outcomes |
| Close Reading | Discuss language, meaning and ideas in a range of texts, relating their understanding to experiences, purposes, audience and other texts. |
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Gather and display a poetry (RTF 5KB) : rhymes, ballads, free verse, narrative poems, nonsense poems, limericks, haiku.
Throughout the unit students to independently read a selection of poetry and keep a record of poems read.
Students select a poem they enjoy and prepare a presentation of it for their group.
Students use these skills for writing poems in a selected form. Students share and respond to the poems of others in small groups.
A class anthology could be made and illustrated using the students' writing. See an student_poems (RTF 2MB) of student work.
Published on: 20 Apr 2009
