Write a poem with onomatopoeia.

Perform a poem.

Write a counting poem with alliteration.

• Continue to build up a repertoire of poems learnt by heart, appreciating these and reciting some, with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear.
• Explain and discuss their understanding of books, poems and other material, both those that they listen to and those that they read for themselves.
• Learn how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly (see English Appendix 2), including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contracted forms and the possessive (singular.)
• Segment spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly.
• Add suffixes to spell longer words, including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly.
• Develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing, by writing poetry.
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.
• Expand noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly.]
• Consider what they are going to write before beginning by encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence.