KS2 Christmas Poetry Unit - 3 Lessons, PowerPoints, Resources

Bring some Christmas joy to your classroom with these 3 Christmas Poetry Lessons! Perfect for the last week of term or spread out across the Autumn term, these lessons are perfect to bring excitement to your classroom.

Children will create their own Christmas poems - starting with learning all about rhyming words and creating rhyming phrases to creating an acrostic poem to writing a free verse poem all about the five senses (see, hear, touch, smell, taste) at Christmas.

Each PowerPoint is easy to follow and guides the teacher through from starter, main input to task and plenary.

Resources included:

• x3 lesson plans
• x3 PowerPoints (one for each lesson)
• Christmas Poem Template (for support)
• The Magic of Christmas poem
• x3 Acrostic poem templates (with and without lines)
• Christmas Acrostic poem example (for modelling)
• Christmas Senses Pictures
• Senses Inside and Outside at Christmas worksheet

Lesson 1: L.O. I can use rhyming words to create a Christmas poem.
Success Criteria: I can recognise rhyming words when saying them out loud.
I can create a rhyming poem about Christmas
I can create excitement through poetry.
I can add other literary features (e.g. conjunctions, adjectives, similes).

Lesson 2: L.O. I can use rhyming techniques to write an acrostic poem.
Success Criteria: I understand different poem genres.
I can use rhyming to create a poem.
I can use techniques to create rhyming phrases with key words.
I can use neat presentation and handwriting.

Lesson 3: L.O. I can use my five senses to describe Christmas.
Success Criteria: I understand different poem genres.
I can use rhyming to create a poem.
I can use techniques to create rhyming phrases with key words.
I can use effective adjectives to describe the senses at Christmas time.

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