Playing around with poetry

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.

Teacher background reading

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 , cinquain .

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.