Learning
Year 3 Poetry
Each year group allocates one week per term to focus on a particular type of poetry. Children spend time during the week reading, discussing, reviewing, and creating poems in the given style that they are learning. Poetry types have been allocated to year 3 as follows:
Click on them to find out more about the poem.
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Narrative with Rhyme |
Scared by Michael Rosen The Listeners by Walter de la Mer The Sound Collector by Roger McGough |
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Question & Answer poems |
Registration by Allan Ahlberg Cool School by Michael Rosen What is Pink by Christina Rossetti |
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Haiku & Tankas |
Haiku Seaview Haiku by John Foster Windy Day by John Foster Haiky Riddle by Celia Warren
Tanka Silver Aeroplane by John Foster The Penny Black by John Foster Two Tanka Riddles by Marian Swinger |
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Performance Poetry |
Life doesn’t frighten me at all by Mya Angelou The Sound Collector by Roger McGough Twenty Four Hours by Charles Causley Instructions for Giants by John Rice |
For performance, year 3 will learn these poems. Click on these to find out more about these poems.