Literacy Hour

Reception and Year 1

Understanding alphabetical order, nursery rhymes and action, nursery rhymes and traditional rhyme, nursery rhymes and songs, rhyme by Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Taylor and Gillian Clarke.

Year 2

Poems with familiar settings, with predictable and patterned language, from other cultures, by significant children’s poets and all based around the theme of Night. Also a collection of riddles, tongue twisters and humorous verse by Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Taylor and Gillian Clarke.

Year 3

Observation and the senses, oral and performance poems from different cultures and shape poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Taylor and Gillian Clarke.

Year 4

Poems based on common themes, classic poems and study of the range of forms by Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Taylor and Gillian Clarke.

Year 5

Four sections paying special attention to the use in poetry of the following parts of speech, and to reading poetry aloud: verbs – active and passive, nouns – abstract and concrete, adjectives and adverbs, rhythm and rhyme. by Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Taylor and Gillian Clarke.

Year 6

12 language lessons studying classic and modern poems and based on an A-Z of poetry tools by Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Taylor and Gillian Clarke.

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