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Play Year 4 Poetry Workshop
Recognise selected poetry forms, decode rhyme schemes, analyse structural choices and choose a line or note for a supplied poem plan. Saving is off unless you choose it.
Choose supplied images, rhyme endings and planning notes for stated poem patterns. Writing a poem, transforming a nursery rhyme and spoken performance are not assessed.
Year 4 · English
Plan what to write in Year 4 English
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Focus on plan and write poems using familiar poetry and nursery rhyme structures. Open support for “Write a Poem Based on the Structure of Familiar Poetry”, then explain the idea in your own words.
Year 4 learners practise plan and write poems using familiar poetry and nursery rhyme structures.
The activities include Write a Poem Based on the Structure of Familiar Poetry, Write Alternative Versions of Nursery Rhymes. The checked support below includes teaching, video, lesson, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.
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What Is Pink? written by Christina Rossetti
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Oak Year 4: Performing Poems Written by John Lyons
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BBC Off By Heart: Reading and Writing Poetry Teacher Notes
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Hamilton Trust Year 4: Write and Perform a Poem from 'What Is Pink?'
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Oak: Laura Mucha performance poetry
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Nursery Rhyme Mad Libs
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