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Lean Your Limericks
5 6 Pre & Primary Essentials Worksheets English Examining Literature Creating Literature Engaging With & Responding to Literature 1 Page

Lean Your Limericks

In this worksheet, students are scaffolded on the way to writing limericks. Encourage your students to share their work after they’re finished, either in small groups or as a class.

It is a part of a larger unit that introduces students to a number of literary devices, develop their skills in writing poetry, while fostering an interest in its variety of forms.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots.
  • We are learning to identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts.
  • We are learning to identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse.
  • We are learning to identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse.
  • We are learning to create and edit texts by adapting storylines, characters and settings and experimenting with figurative language.
  • We are learning to experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating texts, for example using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice.

Curriculum alignment

EN3-7C old Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts EN3-6B old Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies EN3-2A old Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts EN3-UARL-02 new Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts EN3-UARL-01 new Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts EN3-HANDW-02 new Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts EN3-HANDW-01 new Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style EN3-SPELL-01 new Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words EN3-CWT-01 new Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language EN3-VOCAB-01 new Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts EN3-OLC-01 new Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
VCELT356 Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways VCELT355 Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts VCELT344 Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse VCELT342 Identify and explain how choices in language, including modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts VCELT341 Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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