Performing a poem for an audience
I can perform a poem for an audience.
Performing a poem for an audience
I can perform a poem for an audience.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Standing to speak helps to get the audience's attention.
- Successful speaking includes speaking loudly and clearly enough for everyone to hear.
- Successful listening includes looking at the person speaking and paying close attention.
- Speaking with volume helps to hold an audience's attention.
- Actions and sound effects help add to a poem's meaning.
Keywords
Volume - how loud or quiet someone speaks
Audience - a group of people watching a show or event
Nursery rhyme - a type of poem or short song often read or sung to, or by, young children
Common misconception
There may be pupils who do not know a nursery rhyme by heart.
Use the Y1 'Nursery rhyme' unit prior to this lesson to familiarise children with a range of nursery rhymes. Spend time in class singing and reciting nursery rhymes together. Children may wish to choose their favourite nursery rhyme to perform.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
using your voice to talk to someone
paying attention to what someone is saying
how loud or quiet someone speaks
Exit quiz
6 Questions
a show that you put on for others
a group of people who watch a show or event
a type of poem that is often sung to a tune