Pirate Poetry
Your students will love completing this poetry task as they add their own rhyming words to create their very own version of this funny pirate poem.
Have students perform their poem for the class or publish and combine them into a class book of Pirate poetry.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to identify patterns of repetition in texts and to identify rhyme in poems, chants and songs.
- We are learning to listen to, discuss and explore sound patterns, e.g. alliteration and rhyme, in poems, chants, rhymes and songs.
- We are learning to understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts.
- We are learning to recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs and explore sound patterns, e.g. alliteration, rhyme.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E1LA04
9
Explore how repetition, rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in simple poems, chants and songs
AC9E1LE04
9
Listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
ACELA1448
8.4
Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts
ACELT1585
8.4
Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
EN1-4A
old
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
EN1-6B
old
Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts
EN1-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
EN1-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
EN1-UARL-01
new
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Some students may benefit working in a small teacher-led group.
Extensions
Students can think of additional pirate names and rhyming sentences to add to their poem.
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