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Assessment for Learning Resource Bank Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity – Finding Poemland

Learning objectives:

Text Types
  • Poems
Vocabulary
  • Terms related to poetry: Rhyme, onomatopoeia, alliterations, repetition, stanza
  • Vocabulary items: Identical, twins, frown, mess, confusion, illusion, scowl, din, grin, commits, sin
Language Items and Communicative Functions
  • Use adjectives, adverbs, formulaic phrases, etc., to make comparisons and give descriptions of processes and situations
  • Use the simple present tense, gerunds, conditionals, etc., to make general statements about the world and "universal truths"
Language Skills
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Speaking
Attitudes
Generic Skills
  • Creativity
  • Problem solving skill
  • Study skill

Related Basic Competencies:

L6-R-1-S3BC Using an increasing range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity (IS, KS, ES)

L6-R-2-S3BC Extracting and organizing information and ideas from texts with some degree of complexity (KS)

L5-R-3-S3BC Understanding the use of a range of language features and other techniques to present themes, characters, experiences and feelings in simple literary / imaginative texts (IS, KS, ES)

L5-L-1-S3BC Understanding the use of a range of language in simple literary / imaginative spoken texts (ES)

L6-S-1-S3BC Pronouncing familiar and less familiar words generally clearly and accurately (KS)

L5-S-2-S3BC Using a range of delivery techniques (including stress, rhythm and intonation) to convey meaning generally appropriately with the help of cues (IS, KS, ES)

Level of Difficulty

Preliminary to S3BC (at S1 level)

To S3BC (at S1 to S2 level)

At S3BC (at S3 level)

Activity Description Suggested duration (minutes) Available for self - learning?
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 An Interactive Activity:
1. Knowledge building: There is a sample poem including rhymes, alliteration and repetition that help students to understand the use of the language features of poetry.
2. Appreciation: Students are asked to read the poem aloud in order to appreciate the language features that are presented in the text.
3. Understanding and comprehension: Questions are set to test students' comprehension of the sample poem.
4. Practice and application: There are exercises for students to apply or familiarize with the introduced language features of poetry (i.e. rhymes, alliteration, repetition and onomatopoeia). 		45 Image
 
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Key Stage 3 Targets:

To develop an ever-improving capability to use English:

EDa- To develop a response to imaginative literature including poems through activities such as identifying and discussing themes and understanding and appreciating the effect of sound patterns including rhythm and rhyme
EDb- To respond to characters, events and issues in imaginative and other narrative texts through written means, such as, making predictions and inferences, making evaluative comments and relating to one's experience