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    Environment Poetry: For Key Stage 2 Literacy Lessons
    Environment Poetry: For Key Stage 2 Literacy Lessons
    Environment Poetry: For Key Stage 2 Literacy Lessons
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    Environment Poetry: For Key Stage 2 Literacy Lessons

    By Andrew Frolish

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    This is a great new resource that provides a selection of poems, lesson plans and worksheets, designed to be used by Key Stage 2 teachers in literacy lessons. The poems and lesson plans are based on a variety of environmental issues, such as recycling, dramatic weather changes and environmental disasters (like oil spills). The book contains 24 lessons with cross-curricular links to support learning in other subject areas. Their interest coincides with the need for schools to raise awareness of environmental concerns and to become more sustainable organisations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Allen Group
    Release dateOct 19, 2012
    ISBN9781907515989
    Environment Poetry: For Key Stage 2 Literacy Lessons

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      Book preview

      Environment Poetry - Andrew Frolish

      Title page

      Environment Poetry

      For Key Stage 2 Literacy Lessons

      Andrew Frolish

      Copyright page

      Originally published by Hopscotch, a division of MA Education, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London, SE24 0PB

      www.hopscotchbooks.com

      020 7738 5454

      2012 digital version by Andrews UK Limited

      www.andrewsuk.com

      © 2010 MA Education Ltd.

      Written by Andrew Frolish.

      Illustrated by Emma Turner, Fonthill Creative, 01722 717057

      All rights reserved. This resource is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed upon the subsequent purchaser.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except where photocopying for educational purposes within the school or other educational establishment that has purchased this book is expressly permitted in the text.

      Every effort has been made to trace the owners of copyright of material in this book and the publisher apologises for any inadvertent omissions. Any persons claiming copyright for any material should contact the publisher who will be happy to pay the permission fees agreed between them and who will amend the information in this book on any subsequent reprint.

      All poems are the copyright of Andrew Frolish.

      Introduction

      About this book

      All children should be given opportunities to read and write poetry. By nature, children are often very creative and are capable of surprising insights and observations. They love ‘playing’ with words and rhyme, metaphor and simile, and tackling complex ideas in raps and verse. Their language is vibrant and colourful. However, many teachers lack confidence in their ability to teach poetry. There are several issues teachers face when planning lessons. Firstly, it can be hard to source poems that incorporate the themes or skills they wish to teach, while being at a suitable level for the children in the class. Also, for some teachers, it may be a long time since they studied or analysed a poem for themselves, let alone wrote poetry. This lack of experience with the ‘tools’ poets use means that, once poems have been selected for study, teachers are sometimes unsure how to help children understand the text, and how to inspire and draw out the children’s own creativity.

      One of the keys to unlocking the hidden poets within children is to engage them with subject matter that captures their interest. Many children are genuinely moved by a variety of environmental issues and the relationship between humans and the natural world. Children show a great deal of concern for, and a surprising knowledge of, endangered animals, water conservation, renewable energy sources and recycling. They are fascinated by environmental disasters and changing weather patterns. This interest coincides with the increasing need for schools to be more environmentally-friendly organisations. Schools are attempting to reduce their ‘carbon footprints’ and improve environmental awareness, earning accreditation as ‘eco-schools’ for their efforts. Therefore, it would make sense to teach the skills and techniques of poetry (and other text types) through this subject, motivating and getting the best out of learners.

      Indeed, many schools and teachers are moving towards a more cross-curricular approach. The personalised learning agenda is all about the possibilities for developing key skills through subjects and themes that interest and influence children. Teaching something like poetry in a discrete way is a missed opportunity.

      This book aims to support teachers by:

      providing poems for use in the classroom

      enabling them to deliver activities that develop children’s skills in analysing and writing poetry

      reducing workload through the provision of plans and resources

      presenting ideas for cross-curricular teaching and learning

      planning lessons based on objectives from the Primary Strategy

      covering a range of environmental themes.

      This book aims to support children by:

      improving their ability to read and analyse a poem

      developing the skills necessary to write good poetry

      raising their awareness of a range of environmental issues

      providing opportunities to access activities in a range of learning styles.

      This book is for teachers of children in Key Stage 2 although some of the poems would also be suitable for Key Stage 1 children.

      The book provides a selection of poems based on environmental issues, a subject that interests children, and that schools are keen to tackle in different ways.

      A glossary provides simple explanations of various poetic terms in a way that is accessible to children, using examples where necessary. For older children, this could be photocopied for them to keep and refer to.

      Each poem is accompanied by a lesson plan and worksheets, which support literacy learning and link to other subjects.

      The poems are available in PDF format on www.hopscotchbooks.com through the ‘look inside’ facility. This enables teachers to present the poems on an interactive whiteboard for whole class discussion and annotation.

      In addition, PDF files of the poems are included on the accompanying CD, alongside audio recordings of the poems read by the author. Listening to the poems being performed is an engaging alternative experience.

      The Literacy Objectives grids on page 10 show the poetry units for each year group from the Primary Strategy, alongside the relevant Strands the units should cover. So many Strands are linked to each unit that the text in the grids is quite small. It is recommended that the grids are enlarged to A3 for ease of use. In order to cover all the Strand Objectives, it is not sufficient to use just the poems from this book. The poems and lessons presented here provide a strong starting point and an opportunity to link Literacy to other curriculum areas. Also, please note that Year 5 Unit 2 Classic Narrative Poetry is not covered in this book as children need to study classic poems for this unit.

      Lesson plans

      Each poem in the book is accompanied by a lesson plan.

      The plans include:

      objectives linked to the Primary Literacy Strategy

      key vocabulary

      ‘warm up’ or activities to start the lesson

      questions to ask about the poems in discussions or group reading

      activities supported by worksheets

      ideas for cross-curricular links.

      How to prepare and carry out the lessons

      You will need a white board and pen for making notes. If you have access to an interactive whiteboard, this will make it easier to annotate the

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