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Key Stage Links to Poetry Lessons - Year 1 and Year 2

T1 T6
To recite stories and rhymes with predictable and repeating patterns, extemporising on patterns orally by substituting words and phrases, inventing patterns and playing with rhyme.

• Andy Croft:  Improvisation in Rhyme and Rhythm

T1 T12
To use simple poetry structures and to substitute own ideas, write new lines

• Mandy Coe: Tiny
• Roger Stevens: Animal Families

T2 T13
To substitute and extend patterns from reading through language play, e.g. by using same lines and introducing new words, extending rhyming or alliterative patterns, adding further rhyming words, lines.

• Andy Croft:  Improvisation in Rhyme and Rhythm

T2 T15
To use structures from poems as a basis for writing, by extending or substituting elements, inventing own lines, verses.

To write own poems from initial jottings and words.

• Mandy Coe: Tiny

T3 T15
To use poems or parts of poems as models for own writing, eg by substituting words or elaborating on the text.

• Mandy Coe: Tiny

T3 T16
To compose own poetic sentences, using repetitive patterns, carefully selected  sentences and imagery.

• Andy Croft:  Improvisation in Rhyme and Rhythm

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