📖 Ready for Class 1 · Reading & talking · Ages 6–7 · about 4 weeks Dates: to

Poems and Stories

Goal: Read and perform short poems, talk about stories and say how characters feel.

For parents: Poems are the best reading practice there is: short, rhythmic and worth reading again. Read the same poem every day for a week until your child can perform it.

Do together

  1. Poem of the week

    You need: A short poem (from a book or written out)

    Read it together every day. Clap its rhythm, find the rhyming words, and on Friday your child performs it for the family.

  2. Feelings detective

    You need: A story book

    After reading, ask how a character felt at the start and at the end, and what clues in the words or pictures tell you.

  3. Real or made up?

    You need: A few story books and a few fact books

    Compare a clearly made-up story with an information book. Read enough together to discuss each book's purpose. Explain that stories can also describe real events, so pictures or a cover alone do not prove whether something is invented.

Talk about it

  • Which words rhyme in this poem?
  • What was your favourite part of the story? Why?
  • Is this book a story or does it tell us facts?

Words to use

  • poem
  • rhyme
  • character
  • author
  • illustrator
  • fiction
  • fact

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