Y4 Poetry – Haiku/ Cinquain

National curriculum content

• Write for a range of real purposes and audiences.
• Draft and write by composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures.
• Discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
• Organising paragraphs around a theme.
• Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition.
• Using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause.
• Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 accurately and appropriately when discussing their writing and reading.
• Assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements.
• Proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences.
• Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.
• Read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear.

Lesson objectives

• To read and internalise the model text.
• To create a text map of the model text.
• To use reading comprehension strategies to understand the text.
• To understand the organisation of the poem.
• To understand vocabulary and definitions.
• To recognise key text features.
• To use new grammatical features in a short burst write.
• To contribute to a shared write.
• To innovate the model text with my ideas.
• To write independently using the skills taught.

What we want children to know and the skills necessary to achieve this

• To be able to write a sentence of 3 for description.
• To write simple sentences and embellish them using adjectives.
• To use short sentences for emphasis.
• To know when to use and write long sentences to enhance description or information.
• Use powerful verbs for emphasis.
• Use specific/technical vocabulary to add detail.
• To understand and use prepositions.
• Use commas in a list effectively.

Grammar and Punctuation Vocabulary

Sentence, full stop, capital letter, simile (as/like), adjective, verb, alliteration, adverb, preposition, synonyms, syllables, onomatopoeia

Topic vocabulary

Haiku, cinquain, eruption, lava, volcano, earthquake, tectonic plates, tsunami