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Lesson One – Swim Stars
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to identify and describe the special vocabulary words and rhythm structures that have been used in a poem describing an Olympic sport.
The class can suggest and model the best ways of performing the poem to an audience to illustrate some of the main actions and events that are connected to a sport.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to identify and describe the special vocabulary words and rhythm structures that have been used in a poem describing an Olympic sport
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading poem to describe how to compose a rap poem using special vocabulary words and rhythm structures and a table display card to identify and describe vocabulary and rhythm structures that have been used in a rap poem.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and describe vocabulary words and rhythm structures that have been used in a poem describing an Olympic sport.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select vocabulary and rhythm structures to compose and perform rap poems describing actions and events connected to different Olympic sports. 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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