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World Wars Poems

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and reflect on how poets can use figurative language and verse structures to express themes and ideas about conflicts that have happened in the world. The class can practise adding their own verses to each of the poems.

1914, Wilfred Owen
Read and answer comprehension questions about a classic poem illustrating life during the first world war from the view of a soldier
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World Wars Poems
Explore and reflect on how poets can use figurative language and verse structures to express themes and ideas about conflicts that have happened in the world
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Scary Tales
Investigate and replicate the structure and format of narrative stories and poetry about different spooky and mysterious people, places and events
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Letter Strings Word Groups
Explore how to identify, list and match some groups of words that can be spelt with common letter strings
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Rounding Hundreds
Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number