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Poems: reading, reciting, performing

read aloud & recite poems

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choose, prepare, rehearse, perform poems

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read/recite poems that play with language or entertain

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clap out/count syllables in regular poetry

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recognise simple forms of poetry and their uses

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read further poems by a favourite writer

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read work of significant poets

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read a range of narrative poems

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perform poems in a variety of ways

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read, rehearse, modify performance of poems

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read humorous verse

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read challenging poems

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Poems and rhyme

distinguish rhyming & non-rhyming poetry

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patterns of rhyme & verse

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how a poet does/does not use rhyme

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impact of sound patterns in poems

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Poems: range, form, style, content of

impact of layout in poems

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write calligrams/shape poems

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compare different views of same subject in poems

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discuss choice of words/phrases

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compare/contrast similar themes

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recognise simple forms of poetry

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analyse/compare poetic style; forms/themes used by significant poets

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identify what is distinctive about style/content of poems by significant poets

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narrative poems

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identify typical features of different kinds, terms describing different kinds

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poems from different cultures

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identify cultural features by reference to the text

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how messages, moods, feelings and attitudes are conveyed in poetry

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how poets manipulate words, (sound, connotation, layers of meaning)

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humorous verse

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how linked poems relate to one another

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Poetry: readers‘ response to

express their views about poems, identify words/phrases to support view

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build up class collections of pupils‘ poems

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explain/justify personal tastes; respond to shades of meaning in poems

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compile a class anthology of poems with commentaries

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select poems and justify choices

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consider/evaluate cultural features in relation to own experience

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interpret challenging poems

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comment critically on the overall impact of poems

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Poetry - writing

collect words/phrases to write poems; write calligrams/shape poems

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writing new/extended verses for performance ‘performance’ /oral poetry

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writing poetry that uses sound to create effects; use onomatopoeia, alliteration

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writing poems based on personal/imagined experience

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writing poetry based on the structure and/or style of poems read

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writing poems with different styles and structures

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writing poems, revise and polish them

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writing poems to convey feelings, reflections, moods

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writing extensions to poems using poems‘ structures

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writing poetry using performance poems as models

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revise, redraft, present poetry

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revising poems for reading aloud individually

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writing own poems experimenting with active verbs & personification

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writing a sequence of poems

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