The document provides learning intentions and success criteria for learning about different types of poetry. It introduces various poetry terms and structures, and provides examples and activities to help students explore poetic devices like similes, metaphors, rhyme and rhythm. Activities encourage using poems as models and experimenting with different forms like acrostic, color and shape poems.

1. POETRY

3. POETRY VOCABULARY Ballad Free Verse Line Stanza Sonnet Verse Tells a story or describes a person or thing. Has a regular rhyme pattern, very often having four lines per verse, with the 2nd and 4th lines rhyming. Can be used to create an atmosphere and express mood or feeling. Has an irregular rhythm. A unit of verse consisting of words in a single row. A verse of a poem. A poem that has 14 lines and its usual rhyme scheme is abbaabba, followed by two or three other rhymes in the remaining six lines. A division of a poem. See rest of unit for more vocabulary relating to poetry!

4. Acrostic Poem JEANNE Jolly Energetic Academic Nice Neat Efficient TASK Write your own Acrostic Poem using your name and/or surname!

6. Colour Poems GREY Grey is the playground just before lunch time. Grey is the fog as it swirls around the houses. Grey is the colour of the shells lying on the beach in winter. Grey is the rainy spray on an afternoon road. Grey is the soft coat on my mouse. Grey is grey, And most of all Grey is my tired mum’s hair. TASK Use a Y-chart to determine what your chosen colour looks, feels and sounds like. Then write a colour poem using metaphors (not the words directly from the Y-chart) .

8. Simile Poems SHAPE OF A GREYHOUND A head like a snake A neck like a drake A back like a beam A belly like a bream A foot like a cat A tail like a rat. TASK Use the model to write your own simile poem.

10. Alliteration repeats a consonant over and over; e.g. ‘Betty bought some butter but the butter was bitter’. TASK: The ‘Toothpaste’ and ‘Snail’ shape poems use alliteration. Write a shape poem from one of these ideas using alliteration: A rugby ball, a snake, a flower, a ghost, a star, a banana, a pair of glasses, your choice. Shape Poems

11. Rap Read the rap to yourself. Use the rhythm. Write-a-Rap Rap Hey, everybody, let’s write a rap. First there’s a rhythm you’ll need to clap. Keep that rhythm and stay in time, ‘ cause a rap needs rhythm and a good strong rhyme. “ But what’ll we write?” I hear you shout. There ain’t no rules for what a rap’s about. You can rap about a robber, you can rap about a king, You can rap about a chewed up piece of string… (well, you can rap about almost …… anything!

12. Rap You can rap about the ceiling, you can rap about the floor, you can rap about the window, write a rap on the door. You can rap about things that are mean or pleasant, you can rap about wrapping up a Christmas present. You can rap about a mystery hidden in a box, you can rap about a pair of smelly old socks. You can rap about something that’s over and gone, you can rap about something that’s going on and on and on But when you think there just ain’t nothing left to say….. you can wrap it all up and put it away. It’s a rap. It’s a rap. It’s a rap rap rap rap RAP! By Tony Mitten

14. Limerick A limerick is a fun poem that has five lines. Lines one, two and five have three strong downbeats and the ends rhyme. Lines three and four have two strong downbeats and rhyme. O’Toole There once was a boy named O’Toole Who didn’t act smart when at school. He tried to read books But got dirty looks, And he grew up to be quite a fool. Anna Maria Anna Maria from France Hated to sing and to dance But she boogied one day What and awful display! When her neighbour set fire to her pants. TASK: Try write your own limerick.