Reading and responding to 'If All The World Were Paper' by Joseph Coelho
I can give a personal response to the poem and read it aloud.
Reading and responding to 'If All The World Were Paper' by Joseph Coelho
I can give a personal response to the poem and read it aloud.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- The poem ‘If All The World Were Paper’ imaginatively explores what we might do if everything were made of paper.
- The poem explores the theme of protecting those we love and preserving their memory.
- Other themes in the poem include: family, memory, love and imagination.
- A metaphor is a way of describing and comparing something by saying that it is something else.
Common misconception
Pupils may confuse metaphors with similes.
Emphasise that metaphors compare things by saying one thing actually is another, while a simile uses the words 'like' or 'as'.
Keywords
Theme - a big idea, topic or message that recurs within a text
Metaphor - a way of describing and comparing something by saying that it is something else
Equipment
You need a copy of the poem ‘If All The World Were Paper’, which is in the 2014 Frances Lincoln Children's Books edition of ‘Werewolf Club Rules’ by Joseph Coelho, 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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