Lesson Five – Poetry Performance

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and perform a poem about some of the special things that could happen in a school using the correct tones, expressions and actions for a performance.

The class can use a checklist to rehearse their poems ready to perform to the other pupils to express ideas and thoughts about school life.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and perform a poem about some of the special things that could happen in a school using the correct tones, expressions and actions for a performance

Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to record how to make improvements to their performance and rehearse their poems ready to perform to the other pupils when expressing ideas and thoughts about what can happen in a school.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to perform a poem about some of the things that could happen in a school using the correct tones, expressions and actions.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write tongue twisters, humorous poems and word play poetry on the theme of schools, identify word roots that can be changed by adding different prefixes and rehearse and perform a poem to the class. 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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