Poetry - Sports Imagery

Pupils explore a poem about sport, discussing examples of powerful language. In small groups, they then plan and write their own verses to add to the poem.

Pupils discuss a piece of poetry which lacks detail and description and help embellish it as a whole class. They then rewrite a different poem, adding in powerful words and phrases.

Pupils look at similes and go on to write imagery comparing athletes to qualities in animals. Groups of pupils put together their lines of verse to make a complete short poem.

Pupils revisit the earlier Sporting Heroes poem, looking for onomatopoeia. They produce their own examples.

Pupils are introduced to alliteration and look at examples. Using the poem Sporting Heroes as stimulus, pupils use alliteration in their own poems.

This final open lesson allows pupils to apply imagery techniques they have used throughout the unit. They plan and write a poem with a sporting theme, using rich vocabulary, simile, alliteration and/or onomatopoeia.