Our Year 4 Poetry Resource introduces students to poetry through 10 engaging lessons. Beginning with the basics, students will learn the differences between poetry and prose, along with key terms like stanzas, lines, rhyme, and meter. They’ll then explore rhyme and rhythm, as well as different types of rhyme. The course also focus on poetry organization, highlighting structures like stanza forms and line breaks. Students will explore various types of poetry, including haikus, sonnets, and free verse. By the end, they will master the elements needed for effective poetic expression.

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Discovering Poetry: A Creative Journey for Year 4

Course Overview

This course is specifically designed for Year 4 students who wish to improve their understanding of poetry and answering techniques. Over the course of ten lessons, students will explore and develop all the essential components needed to enhance their poetry skills.

Course Components

The poetry course guides students on a journey to uncover all the essential elements that should be incorporated into poetry.

Unit 1:

By the end of this unit, students will have a solid understanding of the use of metaphors, similes, repetition, tone, onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme, and imagery in poetry.

Unit 2:

By the end of this unit, students will understand the structure of poetry, focusing on lines, stanzas, rhyme schemes, as well as couplets, tercets, and quatrains. They will also learn how a poet's intentional structuring impacts the poem's meaning and overall message.

Unit 3:

By the end of this unit, students will understand the use of symbolism in poetry and how each quatrain communicates distinct ideas, often building on concepts introduced in tercets.

Unit 4:

By the end of the unit, students will understand the characteristics and differences between Formal Verse, Lyric Poetry, and Free Verse, and how each type allows poets to express thoughts and emotions through various structures, rhyme schemes, and rhythms.

Unit 5:

By the end of the unit, students will understand the distinction between epic poetry's grand themes and heroic journeys and dramatic poetry's focus on intense emotions and conflicts. They will also learn about the storytelling techniques and themes of narrative poetry, ballads, and epic poetry.

Unit 6:

By the end of the unit, students will understand how sensory descriptions and imagery create vivid, immersive poetry and how descriptive language and rhyme schemes enhance engagement and structure. They will also grasp the role of rhyme techniques and imagery in evoking sensory experiences and enriching the reading experience.

Unit 7:

By the end of the unit, students will understand how repetition and alliteration enhance poetry by emphasizing themes and emotions, creating rhythm, and adding musical quality and vivid imagery.

Unit 8:

By the end of the unit, students will be able to distinguish between tone and mood in poetry, understand how poets use word choice and imagery to convey emotions, and analyse how these elements shape the overall experience of a poem.

Unit 9:

By the end of the unit, students will understand how personification and onomatopoeia enhance poetry by assigning human traits to non-human objects and using sound-imitating words to evoke sensory experiences.

Unit 10:

By the end of the lesson, students will understand the difference between metaphors and similes, recognize how these literary devices create vivid imagery in poetry, and appreciate their role in making complex ideas more relatable. They will also learn how to identify and use metaphors and similes effectively in their own writing to enhance expression and creativity.