Year 3 weather poetry

[NeganLovesLucille]

I am trying to plan 4 day's worth of English for the first week back. I am really struggling to find any suitable poetry on which to base the lessons.

The poem for English needs to be weather related and would be used as a model text to imitate, innovate and invent in the Talk for Writing style over the four days of teaching. I would also prefer one that does not rhyme!

I could fall back on the reliable acrostic or shape poetry if I cannot find anything suitable, but I would prefer to make it a more descriptive or narrative poetry week if possible.

I would appreciate any suggestions of poems that have worked well for you!

Weather - Poem by Eve Merriam

Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot
Spotting the windowpane.

Spack a spack speck flick a flack fleck
Freckling the windowpane.

A spatter a scatter a wet cat a clatter
A splatter a rumble outside.

Umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella
Bumbershoot barrel of rain.

Slosh a galosh slosh a galosh
Slither and slather a glide

A puddle a jump a puddle a jump
A puddle a jump puddle splosh

A juddle a pump a luddle a dump
A pudmuddle jump in and slide!

Do you definitely want to do the imitate/innovate cycle? If not, I really like Pie's poetry idea where you use an image (weather related!) and pick out 5 elements (sea, sand, sun, tree, shell, etc). Then you expand each one so it becomes a line of a poem using whichever learning objective you want to teach. Not sure if that makes sense but you can get some amazing poetry from KS2 with it.

quick that’s a lovely poem!

David Kitchen has a brilliant poetry anthology called Earshot. All grouped into themes. I’ll look up weather once I get up- I’m sure there will be some good ones.

Thanks for the suggestions. I like that quick.

Tea Literacy lead has a big focus on imitate/innovate at the moment despite not following the T4W scheme in its entirety. I only started at this school in September and they don't teach English in the way that I have been used to, so I feel that I really need try incorporate the strategies that literacy lead has presented to staff. It is some sort of hybrid between T4W and other methods of teaching English. However, if I believe that the T4W style will not fit well and move the pupils non, then I will not use it for this unit and will focus more on that in the next unit. This poetry unit is only for the first 4 days back.

Negan I'm T4W lead in my school and a huge advocate of it (especially done properly!) but the structure doesn't always work to produce the best poetry writing if the kids are too hung up on the right structure, rhyme, etc. Difficult if the Lit co-ord says otherwise though!!

Meant to add so you're right to deviate if it's not working!

Tea In my previous school, I taught English I am finding the mish-mash of different approaches a bit inconsistent. In the school before that it was read write inc. Here, it is a combination of different appraoches.

If they want T4W then we should teach the whole programme consistently. They seem to have picked bits of it and left out huge chunks and it makes little sense to me at the moment.

Lit co-ord is also my 'workplace buddy' as I am new to the school, so she pays more attention to me than others who are not new to the school. This makes me feel that I need to conform to the teaching approaches that she prefers when I can. However, if in my professional judgmnet, my pupils will progress more by deviating then I will.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45032/fog-56d2245d7b36c This v short poem about fog is great for metaphors. What other animal metaphors could they use for weather? Icy claws, biting winds...

Thank you Bringonthescience I like the fog poem.

www.inspirationalstories.com/poems/t/on-weather/

Poems for every requirement - the list has 1071

Kennings, haikus or cinquains really lend themselves to weather. Kennings especially.

You know the sort of thing:

Cold heart stabber,
Slow dripper,
Teeth barer,
Icy sword swinger,
Rooftop tooth maker.

(Icicle)

Vision trickster,
Soft Edger,
Damp lover,
Field blanket,
Cow hider,
Light drinker.

(Fog)

Great for personification.