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Rosen - Nichols - McGough - Kay - Agard - Coe - Classic 1 - Classic 2

Synopsis

The poet Grace Nichols introduces and reads some of her best-known poems for children:

Sun is laughing
In this poem Grace Nichols imagines the sun as a moody, teenage girl.

For forest
Uses personification to explore powerful feelings about the forest.

Cosmic disco
A poem inspired by the constant movement of the night sky.

Alligator
The poem is based on real-life memories of an alligator.

I am the rain
A playful poem about the rain having fun with itself.

My gran visits England
Explores a visit to England made many years ago

What me mudder do
The poem adopts the voice of a small girl boasting about her mother

Give yourself a hug
Grace Nichols says we should all give ourselves a big hug!

If you wish to listen to the poems individually, these can be found below.

The poems

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Curriculum guidance

There are eight programmes in this series. Each of the first 6 programmes profiles a different contemporary children’s poet who introduces and then reads a selection of his or her work.

The final two programmes focus on classic poetry and include a selection of well-known poems often taught at Key Stage 2. These poems are read by the actors Maxine Peake and Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Using the audio

The programmes can be used in a variety of ways. You can listen to them in their entirety or listen to and focus on one poem at a time. Students can read the text of the poem before, during or after listening to the recording and there are suggestions in these notes for pre-, during-, and post- listening activities.

Using the images:

Each programme is accompanied by a composite picture inspired by the poems in that programme. These can be used:

• to stimulate pre-listening discussion about what the poems might be about;

• to explore themes in the poet’s writing;

• to support reading of individual poems – the image can act as a visual reminder of topics, themes or narratives for students while they are completing work on poems;

• to stimulate creative writing: pupils could pick two or three elements of the picture and combine them to stimulate a story. This might work well with a ‘consequences’ story frame: a framework of actions already written where pupils add in nouns taken from the image to make a story.

More detailed guidance can be found in the Teachers' Notes below

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