Course Overview
Our Year 6 Poetry Resource course uses 10 engaging videos to introduce students to essential poetry elements, including stanzas, rhyme, rhythm, imagery, and structure. Students will explore these fundamentals to enhance their understanding and creation of diverse poetic forms.
Course Components
Unit 1:
By the end of the lesson, students will understand key poetic devices such as onomatopoeia, personification, metaphors, and similes, and learn how to use rhyme, imagery, and alliteration to enhance their poetry.
Unit 2:
By the end of the lesson, students will grasp how poets use structure—such as stanzas, lines, rhyme schemes, and meter—to convey meaning and evoke emotions. They will learn how these elements organize ideas and enhance the overall message in a poem.
Unit 3:
By the end of the lesson, students will understand the role and structure of quatrains and other stanzas in poetry, including couplets and tercets.
Unit 4:
By the end of the lesson, students will grasp the differences between formal verse and free verse, and understand how combining these forms can enhance emotional expression.
Unit 5:
By the end of the lesson, students will explore various poetry forms, including narrative, epic, and dramatic, focusing on their unique themes, language, and structure. They will understand storytelling elements, conflict, and how different styles like ballads and free verse convey emotions and messages.
Unit 6:
By the end of the lesson, students will understand how imagery and rhyme enhance poetry.
Unit 7:
By the end of the lesson, students will learn how alliteration adds rhythm and musicality to poetry, while repetition emphasizes themes and intensifies impact. They will see how these techniques enhance the emotional and rhythmic qualities of poems.
Unit 8:
By the end of the lesson, students will understand how tone reflects the poet's attitude and how mood evokes emotional responses. They will learn to analyse these elements to enhance their interpretation of a poem’s impact.
Unit 9:
By the end of the lesson, students will learn how personification gives human traits to non-human entities to enhance relatability, and how onomatopoeia mimics sounds to enrich sensory experiences. They will understand these techniques' roles in making poetry more vivid and engaging.
Unit 10:
By the end of the lesson, students will learn how metaphors and similes enhance poetry by creating vivid imagery and conveying emotions. They will understand how these devices make complex ideas more accessible and engaging in poems.
