Reading 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' by James Carter
I can listen to and discuss 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.
Reading 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' by James Carter
I can listen to and discuss 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- A chorus is a part of a poem that repeats again and again.
- Onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like what it is describing.
- Poems can make the listener think about their own experiences.
- Repetition adds to the rhythm of the poem helping to make it fun to read and easy to remember.
- Splish! Splash! Splosh! uses lots of descriptive words to talk about different sensory experiences about water.
Keywords
Chorus - part of a song or rhyme that is repeated after every verse
Senses - seeing, smelling, hearing, touching and tasting
Repetition - the repeated use of sounds, words or phrases
Onomatopoeia - a type of word that sounds like what it describes
Rhyme - repetition in the sounds at the end of words
Common misconception
Children may think that all words with similar sounds rhyme.
Explain that words need to have the same sound at the end to rhyme. Look at words that rhyme and words that do not rhyme, but have the same sound in the middle.
Equipment
You need a copy of the poem ‘Splish! Splash! Splosh!’, which is in the 2018 Otter-Barry Books Limited edition of ‘Zim Zam Zoom! Zappy Poems to Read Out Loud’ written by James Carter, for this lesson.
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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Starter quiz
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Exit quiz
6 Questions
part of a song or rhyme that is repeated after every verse
repetition in the sounds at the ends of words
a type of word that sounds like what it describes