Poetry

English Year 4/5 Spring Poetic Forms

Cloud Soup

Explore a variety of poems from Kate Wakeling's excellent collection, Cloud Soup. Read aloud and enjoy poems, including kennings and narrative poems. Revise word classes and learn how to use relative pronouns and clauses. Inspired by the poems read, write a new narrative poem.

Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.

Core
Unit 1 Core: Read, explore and perform poetry, including kennings and narrative poems
(suggested as 4 days)

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

SPAG
Unit 2 SPaG: Word Classes: nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs
(suggested as 3 days)

You Will Need

Essential Text
Cloud Soup by Kate Wakeling

SPAG
Unit 3 SPaG: Relative pronouns and clauses
(suggested as 3 days)

You Will Need

Essential Text
Cloud Soup by Kate Wakeling

Composition
Unit 4 Composition: Write a narrative poem about a memory
(suggested as 5 days)

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.