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Year 1

Reading 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' by James Carter

I can listen to and discuss 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

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Year 1

Reading 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' by James Carter

I can listen to and discuss 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. A chorus is a part of a poem that repeats again and again.
  2. Onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like what it is describing.
  3. Poems can make the listener think about their own experiences.
  4. Repetition adds to the rhythm of the poem helping to make it fun to read and easy to remember.
  5. Splish! Splash! Splosh! uses lots of descriptive words to talk about different sensory experiences about water.

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.

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

Provide plenty of opportunities for children to listen to the poem. You could use different instruments or classroom objects to make different sounds and the children could make the sounds at the relevant points when you read the poem aloud.
Teacher tip

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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6 Questions

Q1.
Poets ...
write information books.
paint pictures.
Correct answer: write poems.
Q2.
Which words have the same letters at the end?
Correct answer: pig
girl
Correct answer: wig
pot
Q3.
The words 'boom' and 'crash' are examples of ...
rhyme
repetition
proper nouns
Correct answer: onomatopoeia
Q4.
Identify the example of onomatopoeia that best describes a quiet sound.
Correct answer: shhh
bang
bedtime
honk
library
Q5.
Which of these is an example of a poet?
Splish Splash Splosh
Firework Poem
Correct answer: James Carter
Q6.
Identify the words containing the 'oo' sound.
burn
Correct answer: boot
Correct answer: clue
star

6 Questions

Q1.
Select the words that rhyme with each other.
button
Correct answer: bite
gate
Correct answer: flight
Q2.
Identify the word that best describes jumping in a puddle.
shhh
zoom
Correct answer: splash
ding-dong
Q3.
Match the key word to the definition.
Correct Answer:chorus,part of a song or rhyme that is repeated after every verse

part of a song or rhyme that is repeated after every verse

Correct Answer:rhyme,repetition in the sounds at the ends of words

repetition in the sounds at the ends of words

Correct Answer:onomatopoeia,a type of word that sounds like what it describes

a type of word that sounds like what it describes

Q4.
Complete this sentence: 'See, hear, smell, touch and __________ are all senses.'
tongue
food
Correct answer: taste
sleep
Q5.
Which of these words contain the 'igh' sound?
pea
pit
Correct answer: fight
Correct answer: pie
Q6.
Complete this sentence: Repetition makes poems ...
long.
Correct answer: easy to remember.
rhyme.
easy to imagine.