A superb resource for teaching about performance poetry for both Key Stage 1 and 2.
The book is a unique resource for interactive Literacy and drama teaching - it includes 22 poems, specially written for Primary school children to perform, each with teacher's notes and an activity sheet, differentiated according to the target age group. All of the material is copiable.
The poems are interactive because they all involve children responding to, or dramatising, the poem while it is being read aloud, through reading, actions, miming, using gestures, providing sound effects, repeating, chanting and providing missing words. Essentially, they are an extension of the 'finger rhyme' concept, married to drama sketches.
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The poems are arranged in age group order, with some specifically aimed at KS1, and some more suitable for juniors. However, due to the dramatic, interactive and fun nature of the poems, most can be used effectively over a very wide age range.
The poems will enhance the English curriculum, and meet a number of specific requirements of the National Literacy Strategy, as outlined below:
Range of work to be studied should include:
Reception
A wide variety of traditional, nursery and modern rhymes, chants, action verses, poetry and stories with predictable structures and patterned language.
Year 1 term 2
Poems with familiar, predictable and patterned language from a range of cultures, including playground chants, action verses and rhymes.
Year 2 term 3
Texts with language play, e.g. riddles, tongue-twisters, humorous verse.
Year 3 term 2
Oral and performance poetry
Year 3 term 3
Poetry that plays with language.
Year 4 term 3
Range of poetry in different forms, e.g. lists, alphabets, conversations, rhyming forms and free verse.
Year 5 term 3
Choral and performance poetry.
Year 6 term 2
Range of poetic forms e.g. poems written as conversations, free verse, nonsense verse.
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Yummy Yummy!
[Children finish off the second line of each couplet.]
A, B, C, D;
Hope it's fish 'n' chips for _______.
Pizza, nuggets, burgers, pie;
Pile my plate up to the ______.
Coke, Ribena, chocolate shake
Followed by a piece of ______.
Cabbage, broccoli, peas and beans;
Don't forget to eat your ________.
Ketchup, vinegar, mustard, salt;
You've spilt my drink - it's all your ______.
Knife, fork, spoon, plate;
Pudding! I can hardly _______.
Ice-cream, custard, sticky bun;
Eating this is so much ______.
Apple, orange, lemon, peach;
Share the grapes out, fifteen ______.
1, 2, 3, 4;
That was yummy - give me _______!
© Andy Seed 2001
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