Poems in English and guided reading

For this Learning Journey we are reading a poem collection called ‘Belonging Street’ but mainly “Extinct” by Mandy Coe.  In Guided Reading, we read a poem called “New Foal” by Ted Hughes to help us with the main poem. At the end of the week, in English, we wrote a haiku about an endangered animal. A haiku is a poem with 17 syllables in total, in the pattern of 5 syllables then 7 syllables then 5 syllables.  On the week commencing 22^nd April, we looked at a new poem in Guided Reading, called ‘Poem of Earth’s Cry’. This is also by Mandy Coe. In English, we expanded our knowledge on figurative language. We looked at a video of Joseph Coelho – the current Children’s Laureate – making a poem about a statue. We also looked at some pictures and used similes and metaphors to describe them.

The next lesson, we looked at a text about climate change and wrote using figurative language. Our descriptions will help us to write a poem at the end of the week.

Finally, we wrote the poems it was a bit hard to add all our ideas in as we had as we had so many good ideas but in the end, they all turned out great.

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Andres, Florence, Lucy, Maiya, Tilly

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