This resource is aimed at S1-S2/KS3 pupils studying poetry in an English classroom. It could be used as a standalone lesson, or grouped into a wider program of work on poetry.

It is particularly useful for teaching sound techniques.

Includes:

• Text of poem
• A worksheet in white background and blue (to aid visual stress)
• Six questions and an assessment task
• A version with ‘RUAE’ used (to aid Scottish curriculum)
• An answer sheet

Worksheet is designed to be guided by teacher: each question is best zoomed in and discussed; the instruction around sibilance, consonance, and assonance giving opportunity for pause and lively feedback/discussion with pupils.

It could also be printed and handed out. It has also been used successfully on Google Classroom during periods of remote learning.

My experience is of using this resource over two periods minimum.

The assessment task at the end is deceptively difficult but easily differentiated by removing certain requirements, for example:

Create a poem with minimum two stanzas, four lines in each, which describes the personality and behaviour of two characters