Sports Rap

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to select vocabulary and rhythm structures to compose and perform rap poems describing actions and events connected to different Olympic sports. The class can suggest how to use adverbials to indicate timing and places in lines for their rap poems.

Select vocabulary and rhythm structures to compose and perform rap poems describing actions and events connected to different Olympic sports

Lesson One : Swim Stars

Explore how to identify and describe the special vocabulary words and rhythm structures that have been used in a poem describing an Olympic sport

Lesson Two : Sport Actions

Investigate and record some of the changes that can happen to the spelling and meaning of different word roots following the addition of the suffix ing

Lesson Three : Sport Events

Practise selecting and listing some different adverbials of time and place to use in example poems describing a range of Olympic sports and games

Lesson Four : Sport Rap Lists

Explore how to select and list vocabulary, rhythms and word patterns that can be used in a poem describing a sport that athletes can compete in at the Olympic Games

Lesson Five : Olympic Rap

Practise composing, presenting and performing a rap poem using special vocabulary words and rhythm structures to describe an Olympic sport

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