<p>This resource includes pre and post read questions about the poem The Malfeasance by Alan Bold.</p> <p>This poem is a fantastic opportunity for children to enjoy a narrative poem and make inferences about the mythical and mystery beast within it.</p> <p>There are a range of questions for the post read for children to answer, including retrieval, inference and true or false questions.</p> <p>This supports children in experiencing and discussing a wide range of poetry as recommended in the DfE English curriculum for KS2.</p> <p>There is a page of questions which could be used during the teacher or TA led session with the group.</p> <p>This includes a PDF file and an editable publisher file.</p>

<p>The includes a set of haikus so that children can use inference to work out what each haiku is about while learning the form of a haiku poem. This meets the DfE statement that children should discuss a wide range of poetry.</p> <p>During the teacher session, the teacher and group should discuss the rules of haiku poems, poetic devices and the children’s inferences.</p> <p>The post read questions focus on closed questions about the devices and rules, with some inference questions, and include a question about tanka poems so that children can reach the next level of challenge by putting what they have learned about the forms of poetry to the test.</p> <p>Children love the ‘guessing’ format of the pre read questions, and it is an excellent way to make inference fun.</p> <p>This comes with an editable Publisher file and a PDF.<br /> This could be used at any point in KS2 as an introduction to a form of poetry, but is best suited for Year 4 onwards due to the level of challenge.</p>