Starter quiz
- What is a verse in a poem?
- rhyming words
- a group of lines ✓
- ending
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- Which words rhyme with 'night'?
- knit
- kite ✓
- not
- fright ✓
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- Match the rhyming words.
- bright⇔white ✓
- flew⇔you ✓
- one⇔fun ✓
- Select the true statements about poems.
- Poems are a type of fiction text, that are often short. ✓
- Poems are a type of non-fiction text.
- All poems rhyme.
- Some poems rhyme. ✓
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- Select the definition of personification.
- when words that begin with the same sound are placed together
- when rhyming words are found at the end of each line
- describing a non-living thing as if it is a person ✓
- a way of describing something by saying it is something else
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- Which sentence shows personification?
- The classroom is a fortress.
- The sofa cuddled me at the end of the day. ✓
- The car was as fast as lightning.
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Exit quiz
- Who wrote 'Who Has Seen the Wind?'
- Chris Rossetti
- Christina Rossetti ✓
- Grace Nichols
- John Lyons
- Michael Rosen
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- What is a rhetorical question?
- a question beginning with the words 'Are you'
- a series of three questions
- a statement
- a question asked that does not expect an answer ✓
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- Which line from the poem 'Who Has Seen the Wind?' is a rhetorical question?
- Who has seen the wind? ✓
- Neither I nor you:
- But when the leaves hang trembling,
- The wind is passing through.
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- Select the words which could describe the wind from 'Who Has Seen the Wind?' by Christina Rossetti.
- violent
- mysterious ✓
- loud
- elusive ✓
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- What is the definition of elusive?
- something that is difficult to catch or find ✓
- something very big
- something transparent
- something natural
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- Which of the below are types of figurative language?
- rhyming words
- simile ✓
- personification ✓
- metaphor ✓
- facts
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Worksheet
Presentation
Lesson Details
Key learning points
- 'Who Has Seen the Wind?' is a short, simple poem that explores the invisible and mysterious nature of the wind.
- Personification is describing a non-living thing as if it is a person.
- The poem uses rhetorical questions to demonstrate the mysterious nature of the wind.
- The structure of a poem is the way it is ordered, including its pattern of lines, verses and rhyme.
Common misconception
Children may think rhyming words have to have the same spelling of the repeated sounds.
Explain that rhyme is repeated sounds, not spelling. Highlight the rhyming sections of the rhyming words within the poems. Look at the different spellings. Generate further rhyming words and identify the same or different spelling patterns.
Keywords
Repetition - the repeated use of sounds, words, phrases or structural elements that are repeated for emphasis or for a particular effect
Personification - describing a non-living thing as if it acts or feels like a human
Rhetorical question - a question asked that does not expect an answer, but rather to make a point or create emphasis
Elusive - something that is difficult to catch, find, or achieve, often because it is quick or hard to grasp