Additional unit which can be linked to poetry.

Slow reveal
Tiny texts
Iceberging words
Artefacts
Denotations: dictionary definition
(i.e. Dove – white bird of the pigeon family)
Connotations: secret meanings (i.e. peace, calm, soap)

Session 1: Jigsaw pictures of the highwayman from slow reveal – predictions.
Link to Jigsaw !

Session 2:Freeze frame of their predictions based on the picture.
Writing speech for their freeze frames looking at the correct use of speech punctuation.

Session 3: Writing based on their predictions – free choice of genre.
Used images of their freeze frames and artefacts as their stimulus.

Session 4: Tiny text activity
(identifying common themes) and ice berging words to analyse the meaning.
Link to tiny texts.

Session 5: Read poem and created story board of their understanding of the story so far.

Session 6: Analysing and exploring characters viewpoint.
Drama in role as one of the characters.
Wrote dialogue on whiteboards in role.
Completed ‘Role on the wall’

Session 7: Boxed up the poem
‘stealing the structure’
Session 8: Retelling the story from a different perspective using their boxing up.

Session 9-Children to write their own section of poem.
Children then to practise and perform.

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