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SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING LESSONS

Term Objectives

1. To write a short story about finding treasure on an imaginary island
2. To encourage the children to enjoy and write poetry
3. To use similes and metaphors in poetry.
4. To give opportunity for the children to appraise each other’s poems.
5. To write poetry from prose.
6. To write a variety of poems.
7. The Easter story

LESSONS 1-2
These two lessons could be devoted to writing plays to link in with the two grammar lessons or a short
imaginary story could be written.

To write a short imaginary story
Before the lesson (in an art lesson or for homework) the children should have drawn an island with
certain landmarks (see separate sheet as a basic example). Give them suggestions of things to
draw on the island: -
• Mountains
• Forest
• Lake
• Steep cliffs
• A waterfall
• A river
• Beaches
• A quarry

Talk about how the Dead Sea Scrolls were found by boys looking for a lost goat in the Qumran Caves
in Israel.
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls

Read the Parable of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl in Matthew 13:44-46. Discuss the excitement
of finding treasure.

Let the children imagine that they are spending a week’s holiday on a remote island with their friends.
They explore the island carefully because they have read that there is hidden treasure on the island.
Eventually, they stumble upon the treasure in a most unexpected place after days of fruitless
searching.

LESSON 3

To enjoy poetry
Read and discuss the poem, ‘Travel’ by Robert Louis Stevenson.

www.archaeology.about.com/od/poetry/qt/travel_rls.htm

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