Curriculum into the classroom
English
Year 2
Unit 1
Assessment task — Playing with verse
Modelled response
Name:
Teacher:
Class:
Date:
What you will do
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Choose a suitable poem to reconstruct.
2
Change the words in the poem to make a new poem by:
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keeping the rhythm the same
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keeping the rhyme the same
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keeping patterns of sounds and words.
3
Present your poem in a way that is interesting and enjoyable for your audience.
4
Explain:
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how you changed your poem
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the features of your poem that you like and you think will appeal to your audience.
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Task checklist
Poetry reconstruction
I have:
☐ found a poem to reconstruct
☐ changed words in the poem, keeping the patterns of sounds and words
☐ checked that the rhyme is still the same
☐ checked the number of syllables so that the rhythmic pattern has not changed
☐ read my poem aloud to check it made sense
☐ checked that it would be enjoyed by my audience
☐ written my new poem in the task booklet
☐ written sentences about how I changed the original poem
☐ written sentences about the features of my poem that will appeal to my audience.
Poetry presentation
Before I present my poem I will:
☐ decide how I will present my poem to the class (for example, teacher conference)
☐ choose an introduction to suit my audience
☐ practise speaking clearly and memorise my poem:
• using correct volume
• using correct speed (pace) and respond to the rhythm, the sound and word patterns and
the punctuation in the poem
• using appropriate tone, facial expression, eye contact and gesture
☐ practise my explanation about how I changed the original poem and what will appeal to my
audience.
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My poetry choice
The poem I have chosen to reconstruct is:
Five little owls
Attach a copy of your chosen poem here.
Five little owls in an old elm tree, (9)
Fluffy and puffy as owls could be, (9)
Blinking and winking with big round eyes (9)
At the big round moon that hung in the skies. (10)
As I passed beneath I could hear one say, (10)
‘There’ll be mouse for supper, there will today!’ (10)
Then all of them hooted, ‘Tu-whit, tu-whoo (10)
Yes, mouse for supper, hoo hoo, hoo hoo!’ (9)
‘Five little owls’ – Traditional
The features of this poem are:
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It is a rhyming poem.
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It has rhyming words (e.g. tree/be, eyes/skies).
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There are word and sound patterns in the lines (e.g.
fluffy and puffy, winking and blinking).
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Each line has nine or 10 syllables.
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There are repeated words (e.g. owls, big round,
mouse for supper).
Think about:
• the rhyme
• the rhythm
• sound and word patterns
• the use of punctuation.
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Planning guide
Words I could use to write a reconstruction of my chosen poem.
Sound patterns:
My poem will be about:
Nouns/noun groups:
deep blue sea
a giant cow at the beach
one giant cow
their arms in the air
the deep blue sea
her friends
Word patterns:
their arms
spotty and scruffy
Verbs:
sneezing and wheezing
Special words:
My new title:
blowing
mooed
One giant cow
jumping
Rhyming words:
waving
sea – be
swimming
nose – goes
bounce
shouts – about
air – care
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Poetry reconstruction
Title: One giant cow
One giant cow in the deep blue sea,
Spotty and scruffy as cows should be,
Sneezing and wheezing, blowing her nose
Jumping in the waves, up so high she goes.
Waving to her friends on the beach she shouts,
‘Come swim with me please and bounce all about!’
‘No,’ they all said, with their arms in the air
‘We love the hot sun and we don’t care!’
My explanation
How did I change the original poem? Which of my changes will my audience enjoy?
I changed the original poem by:
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changing five owls to just one cow
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making it a nonsense poem
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keeping the rhyme pattern (AABB CCDD) but not keeping the exact rhymes (e.g. say/today
was changed to shouts/about).
I made these changes as I think that nonsense poems are the most entertaining. I am sure that
the audience will enjoy how funny my poetry reconstruction is. After all, who has ever seen a giant
cow in the sea or cows sitting on the beach in the sun?
I think that the audience will also enjoy the rhyming words I have used in the poem (for example,
spotty and scruffy, sneezing and wheezing). Poems that have a simple rhyming pattern are the
most entertaining because they are rhythmic and easy to recite.
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