Ready Steady Read Together
Poetry Lesson 4
What do you think you know?
What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
Book Talk: Let's explore this illustration.
Explore
What do you know and think?
But only a host of phantom listeners that dwelt in the lone house then stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight to that voice from the world of men.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poet show the theme of loneliness and isolation?
B) How does the poet create an eerie and mysterious mood?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
The Listeners
by Walter De La Mare
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor,
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
“Is there anybody there?” he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
’Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head: –
“Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,” he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for defintions!
champed
leaf-fringed sill
smote
perplexed
thronging
hearkening
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I will model the first.
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
champed
Explore
Find Read Talk
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor,
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
champed
Your turn
smote
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
leaf-fringed sill
perplexed
thronging
hearkening
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor,
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
“Is there anybody there?” he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men:Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
’Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head: –
“Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,” he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
What did you notice?
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Main Point
A) How does the poet show the theme of loneliness and isolation?
What's the main idea of the text?
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor,
A) How does the poet show the theme of loneliness and isolation?
Despite the Traveller knocking on the door and calling out, no one answers which implies he is alone.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) How does the poet show the theme of loneliness and isolation?
B) How does the poet create an eerie and mysterious mood?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - no one descended to the Traveller - no head from the leaf-fringed sill leaned over and looked into his grey eyes - no one answered - every word he spake fell echoing
no one answers his call
A) How does the poet show the theme of loneliness and isolation?
Text Mark Evidence only a host of phantom listeners that dwelt in the lone house then stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
only spirits listen
Text Mark Evidence - the empty hall - the shadowiness of the still house
vacant house
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - the lonely Traveller’s call - the one man left awake
solitary man
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence a host of phantom listeners that dwelt in the lone house then stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight to that voice from the world of men
ghosts/spirits
B) How does the poet create an eerie and mysterious mood?
Text Mark Evidence he felt in his heart their strangeness
unsettling emotions
Text Mark Evidence - their stillness answering his cry - never the least stir made the listeners - the silence surged softly backward
the eerie silence
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which is the best match for ‘thronging’?
Find Me
Find two words which show the Traveller was tapping or banging on the door:
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor,
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
“Is there anybody there?” he said.
2 Discuss then check
1 Discuss then check
knocking
smote
Which One's Right?
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
The poet’s use of the word ‘leaf-fringed' indicates…
A the curtains havea leafy pattern
B the house has been neglected and the plants are overgrown
D it is autumn and the leaves have fallen from the trees onto the window
C the house is made of natural materials
True or False?
The Traveller knocks on the door but receives no reply.
False
True
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
write your own poetry.
Reveal
Start with a short poem about your thoughts or surroundings.
Copyright Notice
This document has been supplied under a CLA Licence with specific terms of use. It is protected by copyright and, save as may be permitted by law, it may not be further copied, stored, re-copied electronically or otherwise shared, even for internal purposes, without the prior further permission of the Rightsholder. Extracts sourced from: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.
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Ready Steady Read Together
Poetry Lesson 4
What do you think you know?
What?
Who?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
Book Talk: Let's explore this illustration.
Explore
What do you know and think?
But only a host of phantom listeners that dwelt in the lone house then stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight to that voice from the world of men.
How might this extract link to the illustration?
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poet show the theme of loneliness and isolation?
B) How does the poet create an eerie and mysterious mood?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
The Listeners
by Walter De La Mare
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor, And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller’s head: And he smote upon the door again a second time; “Is there anybody there?” he said. But no one descended to the Traveller; No head from the leaf-fringed sill Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes, Where he stood perplexed and still. But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller’s call. And he felt in his heart their strangeness, Their stillness answering his cry, While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf, ’Neath the starred and leafy sky; For he suddenly smote on the door, even Louder, and lifted his head: – “Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word,” he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for defintions!
champed
leaf-fringed sill
smote
perplexed
thronging
hearkening
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
I will model the first.
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
champed
Explore
Find Read Talk
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor, And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller’s head:
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
champed
Your turn
smote
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
leaf-fringed sill
perplexed
thronging
hearkening
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor, And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller’s head: And he smote upon the door again a second time; “Is there anybody there?” he said. But no one descended to the Traveller; No head from the leaf-fringed sill Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes, Where he stood perplexed and still. But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men:Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller’s call. And he felt in his heart their strangeness, Their stillness answering his cry, While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf, ’Neath the starred and leafy sky; For he suddenly smote on the door, even Louder, and lifted his head: – “Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word,” he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.
Teacher Note: Re-read if time allows.
Reveal Vocabulary
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller’s call.
What did you notice?
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller’s call.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller’s call.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Main Point
A) How does the poet show the theme of loneliness and isolation?
What's the main idea of the text?
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor,
A) How does the poet show the theme of loneliness and isolation?
Despite the Traveller knocking on the door and calling out, no one answers which implies he is alone.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) How does the poet show the theme of loneliness and isolation?
B) How does the poet create an eerie and mysterious mood?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - no one descended to the Traveller - no head from the leaf-fringed sill leaned over and looked into his grey eyes - no one answered - every word he spake fell echoing
no one answers his call
A) How does the poet show the theme of loneliness and isolation?
Text Mark Evidence only a host of phantom listeners that dwelt in the lone house then stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
only spirits listen
Text Mark Evidence - the empty hall - the shadowiness of the still house
vacant house
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence - the lonely Traveller’s call - the one man left awake
solitary man
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence a host of phantom listeners that dwelt in the lone house then stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight to that voice from the world of men
ghosts/spirits
B) How does the poet create an eerie and mysterious mood?
Text Mark Evidence he felt in his heart their strangeness
unsettling emotions
Text Mark Evidence - their stillness answering his cry - never the least stir made the listeners - the silence surged softly backward
the eerie silence
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which is the best match for ‘thronging’?
Find Me
Find two words which show the Traveller was tapping or banging on the door:
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor, And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller’s head: And he smote upon the door again a second time; “Is there anybody there?” he said.
2 Discuss then check
1 Discuss then check
knocking
smote
Which One's Right?
But no one descended to the Traveller; No head from the leaf-fringed sill Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes, Where he stood perplexed and still.
The poet’s use of the word ‘leaf-fringed' indicates…
A the curtains havea leafy pattern
B the house has been neglected and the plants are overgrown
D it is autumn and the leaves have fallen from the trees onto the window
C the house is made of natural materials
True or False?
The Traveller knocks on the door but receives no reply.
False
True
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
write your own poetry.
Reveal
Start with a short poem about your thoughts or surroundings.
Copyright Notice
This document has been supplied under a CLA Licence with specific terms of use. It is protected by copyright and, save as may be permitted by law, it may not be further copied, stored, re-copied electronically or otherwise shared, even for internal purposes, without the prior further permission of the Rightsholder. Extracts sourced from: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.