Thursday 7th May 2020

Year 2 English Lesson

Learning Objective:

To write your own acrostic poem

Prior Knowledge

Prior learning of this objective has taken place in Y2.

The children have completed their own acrostic poems before at school.

Warm Up Activity

Rhyming WordsSome poetry has rhyming words at the end of lines. When words rhyme, they start with different sounds,

but sound the same at the end of the words. So ‘cat’ rhymes with ‘bat’ and ‘hot’ rhymes with ‘lot’.

Can you match up these rhyming words?

sun band joke bit ring

fun poke hit swing land

Main Activity

Here is a dinosaur poem. What do you like about it?

Today we are going to look at acrostic poetry.

An acrostic poem is a poem where certain letters in each line spell out a word or

phrase.

Here is an example:

Using the facts you have learnt about dinosaurs. Can you write your

own acrostic poem about them? Here is an example of the worksheet

available but you can make your own with bubble writing if you would

prefer.

Time to complete the activity

Please now complete the activity sheet.

Challenge

Can you use any Y2 features of writing in your poem?