Spelling Rap

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise designing and performing rap poems to remember the spellings and meanings of some of different words with a range of silent letters.
The class can record vocabulary words with the same silent letters to work with when composing and performing their raps for other pupils to identify the matching silent letters in different words.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise designing and performing rap poems to remember the spellings and meanings of some of different words with a range of silent letters
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and define different words with silent letters in lines from a example rap poem and a worksheet to select and match sets of words with the same silent letters to use when composing rap poems on different themes and topics.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to design and perform rap poems to remember the spellings of different words with silent letters.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore and illustrate the meanings and spellings of some different words with silent letters when using them in a range of topics and scenarios.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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