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Overview of Y2 Summer Term

• It is helpful to think of verbs together first, listing these on one side of the board and any
appropriate nouns on the other side. This provides a pool from which children can select
their ideas.

• The children could compose individual lines on a piece of paper first, thinking about how
well particular words go together. ‘Heart-healer’ works very well with the alliteration of
heart and healer.

• Then the children can be encouraged to think about which lines go together. Some lines
will work well as they are two of a kind: -

Light-bringer
Joy-maker

Skin-browner
Nose-peeler

• They could chop up their lines so allowing them to be paired up. A computer would also be
ideal for this. Perhaps they could invent another line to make up a pair if lines do not pair
up easily.

• Next, encourage the children to order the pairs of lines into verses, again
putting like with like, and finishing with an uplifting thought.

• Less able children could be given word endings and be required to complete them. For
example, on the theme of ‘Water’ this could be:-

________washer
________cleaner
________soaker
________wetter
________cooler
________refresher.

• Celebrate the completed poems.

Learning For Life (Fulfilment)

1. The children will appreciate that there are patterns in language which allow for new
possibilities with words.

2. They will appreciate that God enjoys creativity and that he help us to be creative.

3. They will have had opportunity to write a poem as a class and one individually.

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