Starter quiz
- What do most James Carter poems include?
- many pages
- heroes and villains
- rhyming words ✓
- facts
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- Match the rhyming words.
- pit⇔hit ✓
- bath⇔laugh ✓
- star⇔car ✓
- play⇔day ✓
- Which of these are poems by James Carter?
- Little Bo Peep
- Zim Zam Zoom! ✓
- The Magic Porridge Pot
- Splish! Splash! Splosh! ✓
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- What is a performance?
- a show ✓
- a test
- a book
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- Poems and fairy tales are similar because ...
- they are both sung to tunes.
- they always have magic in them.
- they both have titles. ✓
- they both have rhyming words.
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- Which of these James Carter poems have onomatopoeia in the title?
- 'Zim Zam Zoom!' ✓
- 'Firework Poem'
- 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' ✓
- 'BEwARe!'
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Exit quiz
- James Carter uses lots of __________ and __________ in his poems.
- adverbs
- rhyme ✓
- onomatopoeia ✓
- magic
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- What does it mean to give an opinion?
- to tell a story
- to do a performance
- to share your thoughts and feelings ✓
- to count numbers
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- All opinions are ...
- the same.
- different.
- personal. ✓
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- Which of these can we add expression to?
- hands
- voice ✓
- feet
- toes
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- __________ refers to the loudness or softness of the voice when speaking or reading a poem.
- Volume ✓
- Action
- Expression
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- Actions and sound effects ...
- add to a poem's meaning. ✓
- make a performance hard to understand.
- make a performance more exciting. ✓
- make a performance boring.
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Poems can be learnt by heart by listening to them again and again.
- Making comparisons means finding similarities and differences in a poem, such as the use of rhyme and onomatopoeia.
- Personal responses are a way of sharing your own thoughts, feelings, and opinions about the text.
- Actions and sound effects help to add to a poem's meaning.
- Expression and volume help to hold an audience's attention.
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to give a reason for their opinion.
Model lots of examples using 'because' to expand upon their choice. Call on confident pupils to share their reasons for their opinions and give lots of praise for using 'because' in a sentence.
Keywords
Performance - the act of presenting or reciting a poem in front of an audience using voice, gestures and expression
Volume - the loudness or softness of the voice when speaking or reading a poem
Expression - reading with feelings and emotion to bring a poem to life
Recite - to speak or perform a poem aloud from memory
Opinion - a personal view about something
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