Lesson Five – Poetry Performance
This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and perform different nursery rhymes to an audience with the correct volumes, tones and matching actions.
The class can identify and model how to speak with fluency and clarity when reading a nursery rhyme poem aloud to bring the poem alive to an audience including using matching actions.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and perform different nursery rhymes to an audience with the correct volumes, tones and matching actions
Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to explore the content structure and rhyming vocabulary in different nursery rhymes and a table display card to follow a set of steps to prepare a poem for a performance using matching actions and voice expressions.
The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate different nursery rhymes and the matching vocabulary rhyming words used in the poems and model how to read the poems aloud to an audience with fluency and clarity.
This lesson is part of a English scheme of work to get the children to explore the vocabulary and structure of a range of narrative and traditional poems, identify and spell words with the vowel digraphs ee and oo and match sets of rhyming words. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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