Lesson Planning
Poetry
English Year 1/2 Autumn Poems on a Theme
Monsters
Read and enjoy We're Going to Find a Monster by Malorie Blackman plus a selection of other poems about monsters. Identify rhyme and spelling patterns, imagine and describe your own monster and compare poems.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Reading a story and poems about monsters
(suggested as 5 days)
Group Readers
In Every Corner
There are friendly monsters hiding in the corners of this delightful book getting up to all sorts of things. This lovely story provides opportunities for looking at rhyme and a range of sentence punctuation.
You Will Need
Essential Texts:
We’re Going to Find a Monster by Malorie Blackman and Dapo Adeola.
In Every Corner Hamilton Group Reader
Poems in Resources:
‘The Monster’ Literacy Shed
‘The Playground Monster’ by Pie Corbett
Unit 2 SPaG: Sentences of different forms
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
Different types of sentence
You Will Need
Poems in Resources:
‘The Monster from Outer Space’ by Pie Corbett
‘The Monster’s Alphabet’ by Pie Corbett
Unit 3 SPaG: Using capital letters correctly and commas in lists
(suggested as 2 days)
Unit 4 Composition: Compare poems about monsters and write an appreciation.
(suggested as 5 days)
Lesson Planning
Group Readers
What are Monsters Like?
This text uses simple rhyming couplets to create a simple text which children can engage with. The repeated pattern and colourful illustrations will encourage children to identify rhymes and comparisons and to develop their own ideas too.
You Will Need
Essential Texts:
What are Monsters Like? Hamilton Group Reader
In Every Corner Hamilton Group Reader
Poems in Resources:
‘The Monster’ Emily Hjeltnes
‘Monster’ by Richard Edwards
Group Readers
In Every Corner
There are friendly monsters hiding in the corners of this delightful book getting up to all sorts of things. This lovely story provides opportunities for looking at rhyme and a range of sentence punctuation.