Poems That Make a Noise
Copyright Sandy Fussell 2010-11
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Poet of the day
Michael Rosen
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Michael the poet
Born and lives in England
 He wanted to be a farmer, trained to be a doctor
and became a poet
 His favourite book is Where the Wild Things Are
 He was the UK Children’s Laureate for 2007- 09
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He has big feet and wears
Size 12 shoes
 He loves mobile phones and
gherkins
 He loves poetry
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[the Michael Rosen rap]
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Bathroom Fiddler
(by Michael Rosen - first stanza only)
I’m the bathroom fiddler
The bathroom twiddler
The foodler and the doodler
The dawdler and the diddler
I dibble and I dabble
I meddle and I muddle
When it’s time for me to wash
When I know it’s time for bed.
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Alligator Problem
By Michael Rosen
An excavator excavates
An activator activates
A rotivator rotivates
A cultivator cultivates
And an operator operates
What does an alligator do?
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Poems can make a noise
Poems are meant to be read aloud
 Poet – the person who writes the
poem
 Narrator - the person who speaks
the poem
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To make noise poems use
Rhythm
Refrain
(repetition)
Alliteration
Onomatopoeias
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Rhythm
•The beat of the poem.
•Its syllable pattern – clap it out
•The Michael Rosen rap
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
all the king’s horses
and all the King’s men
couldn’t put Humpty together again.
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Playing with Nursery Rhymes
– breaking the rhythm
By Michael Rosen
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
all the King’s horses
and all the King’s men
trod on him.
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Onomatopoeias
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words that imitate a sound eg animal noises
I’m in my mum
By Michael Rosen
INSERT I’m
In My Mum POEM HERE
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Group Activity
The Storm
By 4B
Wind ____________________________ (verb)
_____________, _____________, _____________, (onomatopoeia )
Rain____________________________
_____________, _____________, _____________,
Thunder____________________________
_____________, _____________, _____________,
Lightning ____________________________
_____________, _____________, _____________,
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Individual Activity
The Haunted House
I’m scared.
______________________s
______________________s
The door _____________ open
The window ___________ shut
A ____________________
A ________________________
I’m scared.
WORD BANK
boo
bump
blank
clunk
moan
howl
eek
screech
tap
scream
creak
shuffle
slap
murmur
rattle
bang
slam
bash
crash
rumble
rustle
click
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Alliteration
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Words that start with the same sound (not
the same letter
Tongue twisters are filled with alliteration
by Michael Rosen
Sheila Shorter sought a suitor;
Shelia sought a suitor short.
Sheila’s suitor sure to suit her;
Short’s the suitor Sheila sought!
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Alliteration Poem
A fly and a flea flew up in a flue.
Said the fly to the flea, “What shall we
do?”
“Let’s fly,” said the flea.
“Let’s flee,” said the fly.
So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in
the flue.
Tongue twisters are fun to read
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Group Activity
Counting Alliteration
By 4B
One wonderful witch
Two _______________________________________________
Three frilly fish
Four _______________________________________________
Five _______________________________________________
Six ________________________________________________
Number + Adjective + Noun
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I Spy Alliteration – the Letter B & C
By Sandy
I spy a button, a baseball bat and Bart
A cushion, a card, a cricket and a cart.
Hint: Start with the two rhyming words – Bart and cart
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Individual Activity
I Spy Alliteration – the Letter S & T
I spy a ___________________________________
A ________________________________________
I spy a button, a baseball bat and Bart
A cushion, a card, a cricket and a cart.
Hint: Start with the two rhyming words
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Refrain & repetition
‘In MY Mum’ repeats “in my mum” and the
onomatopoeia sounds of the heart
Our haunted house poem had a refrain “I’m
scared.”
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Angry
By Michael Rosen
Here comes the man
With the angry dog.
Here comes the dog
With the angry man.
Angry dog
Angry man
Angry man
Angry dog.
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