Year 6 Poetry Unit 1 – The power of imagery

Teaching sequence phase 4

Evaluating, performing and sharing the poems created in the unit (1 day)

Teaching content:

• Evaluate and self-evaluate the poems written in the unit against agreed criteria, with particular reference to the power and aptness of the images used, and the avoidance of tired and clichéd images.
• Select, organise, perform and publish some of the poems, remembering electronic possibilities, for example Internet posting, podcasting, alongside paper publication and wall displays. If using ICT, poems, spoken and/or written, could be linked with their stimulus digital images to form a multimodal presentation.

Learning outcome:

• Children value their own poems and those of others and enjoy sharing them.

Objectives for strands 6, 11 and 12

Throughout the unit, children should focus, as and when appropriate, on the word structure, spelling and presentation objectives identified in the first section above. As well as being integrated into ongoing activity, this will probably also involve some regular short sessions that have a specific spelling or presentation focus.

Note: Although it is possible to deliver this unit in two separated weekly chunks, covering any two of the three first phases at greater length, there are advantages to running it through as a whole as this maintains pace of activity and response and allows a momentum to build for the playful and imaginative ways of thinking and writing involved.