Guided Reading Planner
Year: 9
Unit of Work:
Week 1
Resources: John Agard’s Poems Half
Caste/Checking Out Me History.
Poetry
Word Level
Sentence Level
Differentiation:
Guided Group
Text Level
W6 Know and use terms that are useful for
analysing language.
R16 Analyse ways in which different cultural
contexts and traditions have influenced
language and style.
Date
Starter
Whole Class Work
Guided Reading/Writing
Independent Group Tasks
Plenary
Mon
Making notes. Read
aloud a passage. Pupils
make ‘pictorial’ notes.
Poet’s life – Read through
comments on poet’s life.
Teacher models note
making. Pupils create a
page for a book ‘Modern
Poets for Teenagers’ about
Agard.
Themes and culture
‘Checking Out Me History’.
Read through poem,
discuss poet’s attitude.
Read through unknown
poem, discuss meanings.
N/A
N/A
Pupils
volunteer to
read out
others, make
pictorial
notes.
Group:
N/A
N/A
Read out
poem in
performance
style.
Other ‘Half
Caste’
images.
Tues
Wed
Famous names/dates
matching who’s who.
Divide into 2nd histories.
Pigeon English.
Group:
How are the poet’s
cultural feelings shown
through the poem ‘Half
Caste?’ (Repeated each
week)
Group:
Thurs
Group:
Fri
Group:
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Create a set of images that
reflect the descriptions in the
poem i.e. half caste weather.
Guided Reading Planner
Year: 9
Week 2
Unit of Work:
Resources: How Nansi Got…/Half
Caste/Pan Recipe
Poetry
Word Level
Sentence Level
Mon
Tues
Wed
Guided Group
Text Level
W6 Know and use terms that are useful for
analysing language.
Date
Differentiation:
R16 Analyse ways in which different cultural
contexts and traditions have influenced
language and style.
Starter
Whole Class Work
Guided Reading/Writing
Independent Group Tasks
Plenary
Dialect ‘Unrelated
Incidents.’ Change to
standard English.
Read through ‘How Nansi
Got Lead Part in Swan
Lake.’ Highlight dialect –
turn to standard English –
discuss changes.
Read through ‘Pan Recipe.’
List imperative verbs.
Discuss how poet has used
the recipe form and the
effect.
N/A
N/A
Performance
of poem.
Group:
N/A
N/A
Pupils give them human
qualities of 5 senses
See week 1 plan.
Pupils create
own recipe
poem for an
aspect of
their culture.
(4 lines max)
Group report
back to
class.
Metaphor/similes.
Teacher gives images,
pupils write a metaphor or
simile or both.
Personification. Teacher
offers a range of
inanimate objects.
Group:
Group: ‘Half Caste’
guided group.
Thurs
Group:
Fri
Group:
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‘Half Caste’ images.
Guided Reading Planner
Year: 9
Unit of Work:
Week 3
Poetry
Word Level
Resources: Half Caste/God Hear Me
Is You I Talking To.
Sentence Level
Differentiation:
Guided Group
Text Level
W6 Know and use terms that are useful for
analysing language.
R16 Analyse ways in which different cultural
contexts and traditions have influenced
language and style.
Date
Starter
Whole Class Work
Guided Reading/Writing
Independent Group Tasks
Plenary
Mon
Figurative language quiz.
Own culture. What
represents pupils own
culture. Compile lists.
Choose some to create
similes/metaphors for.
N/A
N/A
Pupils ask
others for
ideas to add
to their lists.
Staircase, word chains
about culture i.e. mobile
a
r
r
i
n
g
s
‘God Hear Me Is You I
Talking To.’
Creating a poem from
previous lesson’s list –
teacher models own list and
1st verse. Pupils work
individually on own.
Group:
N/A
N/A
Using words
from chains
in poems.
Tues
Wed
Annotate poem using
skills from previous
lessons.
Thurs
Fri
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Remind of ‘Half Caste’
poem.
Group:
‘Half Caste’ guided group. ‘Half Caste’ images.
Group:
Group:
Group:
Group report
back.
Guided Reading Planner
Year: 9
Week 4
Unit of Work:
Poetry
Word Level
Resources:
Sentence Level
Starter
Whole Class Work
Mon
Structure ‘Go Spend
Wings’ re-ordering poem.
Discuss line lengths and
how they work with poets
culture and effects.
Experiment with changing,
adding lines together
discuss.
Formal analysis of poem.
Pupils read through any one
of the poems in pack and
annotate for
meaning/form/language.
Remind of ‘Half Caste’
poem.
Tues
Wed
Formal/Informal language.
Each pupil has a line from
a chosen Agard poem.
Read out using tone and
expression. Experiment
with order.
R16 Analyse ways in which different cultural
contexts and traditions have influenced
language and style.
Guided Reading/Writing
Independent Group Tasks
Plenary
Read
different line
lengths out
loud.
Group:
Group:
‘Half Caste’ guided group. ‘Half Caste’ images.
Group:
Thurs
Group:
Fri
Group:
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Guided Group
Text Level
W6 Know and use terms that are useful for
analysing language.
Date
Differentiation:
Orally give a
formal
presentation
of poem.