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Children have completed a brainstorm on a fierce creature. They have listened to an alligator
poem and have read the poem themselves using tone and expression. Using the alligator poem
as a basis for writing the children have written a class poem about their own fierce creature.
Context :
Poetry – Fierce creatures
Learning outcomes
• Children working in pairs will begin to plan their own fierce creature poem
• Children will use their brainstorm ideas to help with descriptive language
• Children will be able to recall how the class poem was planned and written
Before we wrote our poem what was the first thing we had to do? Decide on an
animal. You must also decide on an animal in your pairs before you start your
poem.
Teacher shows children some toys of animals to give ideas to the children of
fierce creatures.
After we had decided on an animal what did we have to do? Think what it
looked like and where it lived?
You have to do that too.
When you start to write your poem what is the first thing you do? Write the title.
Every poem must have a title. What do you think your title might be?
The name of the animal.
PGCE (Primary) Lesson plan
Lesson Development (15-20mins approx) Resources
Lesson phase 3
(The key section of the lesson. Children are given the opportunity to make personal sense of the material they
have encountered, information becomes learning. Time needs to be spent on activities and tasks that enable the
learners to manipulate and interrogate information in order to make sense of it.)
Children work in pairs and discuss which animal they are going to write about. Poem outline
They discuss what the animal looks like and where it would live. for each pair
Children then can begin to plan out their poem.
Each pair has a sheet with the poem outline on it for them to use.