Hot Like Fire Unit - Power of Reading inspired - KS2

In this unit of work you are downloading 15 lessons. Each lesson comes with a Powerpoint presentation. The number of lessons can be extended if you decide to add a ‘edit and improve’ session and a ‘publishing’ session on produced pieces of work.

This unit is inspired by the Power of Reading unit for Hot Like Fire by Valerie Bloom. The book is not needed as all resources needed from the book have been typed up and provided into the download unit.

Learning Objectives are as follows:

PART 1:

Session 1: to annotate a poem
(exploration of ‘Grandma, Bandana an’ me’ and ‘How to ask for a hamster’)
Session 2: understand language used in a poem
(translating the poem ‘De Familiar thing’ from Jamaican dialect to English)
Session 3: Understand the meaning behind words
(dramatising the poem De Bread Van’)
Session 4: Identify the difference between poetry and prose

The following sessions follow a writing cycle which allows build-up to a piece of writing/
Session 5: understand and annotate a poem (‘The People Next Door’)
Session 6: Identify and use conjunctions
Session 7: plan a responding letter (to the invite to dinner that is given to the audience in the poem ‘The people next door’)

Session 8, 9 and 10 can be a writing session, editing session and then publishing session.

PART 2:
This part of the planning unit is exploring and writing with inspiration by Valerie Bloom’s ‘The River’ poem.

Session 1: Explore a poem (The River by Valerie Bloom and then 'Life is Like a River by Patricia Walter)
Session 2: understand rhyming patterns
Session 3: Create my own rhyming poem (inspired by the river poems)
Session 4: Create a drama piece

PART 3
This part of the planning unit is about creating poems about chocolate, using the learning and inspiration that has been covered int he last two parts.
Session 1: Use onomatopoeia and alliteration
Session 2: Use rhyming couplets and expanded noun phrases
Session 3: Experience chocolate for our poems
Session 4: Plan our poems

This will then lead onto a writing session, editing and publishing session.

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