Write additional rhyming couplets to the poem to contribute towards a reading performance.

• Read books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes.
• Recognise some different forms of poetry [for example, free verse, narrative poetry.]
• Prepare poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action.
• Use dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read.
• Listen to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks.
• Discuss words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination.
• Discuss writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
• Discuss and record ideas.
• Propose changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences.
• Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting.
• Read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear.