Year 3 & Year 4 key stage requirement links

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Key Stage Links to Poetry Lessons - Year 3 and Year 4

Year 3	Year 4	Year 4, continued
T1 T12 To collect suitable words and phrases, in order to write poems and short descriptions; design simple patterns with words, use repetitive phrases; write imaginative comparisons. Andy Croft: Improvisation in Rhyme and Rhythm Roger Stevens: Animal Families	T1 T1 To investigate how settings and characters are built up from small details and how the reader responds to them. Roz Goddard: The Button Jar	T2 T4 To understand how the use of expressive and descriptive language can for example create moods, arouse expectations, build tension, describe attitudes or emotions Anthony Wilson: The Magic Box
T1 T13 To collect suitable words and phrases, in order to write poems and short descriptions Write imaginative comparisons Mandy Coe: Tiny	T1 T14 Experiment with powerful and expressive verbs Brian Morse: Cat in the Window Dave Reeves: We'll Weather the Weather To write poems based on personal or imagined experience, linked to poems read Mandy Coe: Tiny Brian Morse: Cat in the Window Pauline Stewart: Poetry Passport Anthony Wilson: The Magic Box List brief phrases and words, experiment by trimming or extending sentences Coral Rumble: How To Make A Poem Pauline Stewart: Poetry Passport	T2 T5 To understand the use of figurative language in poetry and prose Locate use of simile Anthony Wilson: The Magic Box T2 T10 To develop use of settings in own writing, making use of work on adjectives and figurative language To write own examples of descriptive, expressive language based on those read Brian Morse: Cat in the Window
T3 T15 To write poetry that uses sound to create effects, e.g. onomatopoeia, alliteration, distinctive rhythms Anthony Wilson: The Magic Box	T1 W13 To use a rhyming dictionary Gavin Stewart: Making Monsters	T2 T14 notemaking: to edit down a sentence or passage by deleting the less important elements Mario Petrucci: Telegrams T3 T5 To clap out and count the syllables in each line of regular poetry Gavin Stewart: Making Monsters
	T2 T1 To understand how writers create imaginary worlds, particularly where this is original or unfamiliar, such as a science fiction setting and to show how the writer has evoked it through detail Roz Goddard: The Button Jar	T3 T15 To produce polished poetry through revision, e.g. deleting words, adding words, changing words, reorganising words and lines, experimenting with figurative language Roz Goddard: Thr Button Jar Coral Rumble: How To Make A Poem Pauline Stewart: Poetry Passport
See also Magnetic Poetry Interactive word playground, from the Poetry Society Kids Poetry Websites to visit: read poems, writing tips, competitions and places to publish poems	See also Bookshelf recommended poetry books	See also Val Bloom: A Journey Through the Senses *Poetry Workshop* Phil Bowen: Favourite Things *Poetry Workshop* Pat Leighton: Group 'Conceit' Poem *Poetry Workshop*
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