Ready Steady Read Together
Poetry Lesson 5
Quiz Time
Start
Questions about the book so far...
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘champed’?
Fill the Gaps
hearkening
phantom
thronging
But only a host of 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 the faint moonbeams on the dark stair
That goes down to the empty hall, in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller’s call.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Sequence Me
Put the following events in the correct order:
A) The Traveller called out, “Is there anybody there?”
B) The Traveller left, telling the listeners that he had kept his promise.
C) The Traveller arrived at a quiet, moonlit house and knocked on the door.
D) Inside the house, ghostly listeners stood silently, the only ones to hear his voice.
Click if correct
Check
Link Me
Link each poetic feature with the example from the poems:
A “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...
1 onomatopoeia
B Where the shy-eyed delicate deer troop down to the brook to drink...
Check
2 rhyme
Click if correct
C My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.
3 alliteration
D He waddled in the water pudge and waggle went his tail and chirrupt up his wings to dry upon the garden rail.
4 metaphor
Speaking Spotlight
Performance Podium
Explore
Performance Podium
Expression
Rehearse
Accuracy
Pace
Volume
Perform a poem from this week.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for defintions!
coppice
heath
anemones
ring-dove broods
cantering
solitudes
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From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Let me read today's text
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The Way Through the Woods
by Rudyard Kipling
They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few.)
You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet,
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods.
But there is no road through the woods.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
Teach
Your turn
Practise & Apply
Use your text
Practise & Apply
1) Give two examples of how The Way Through the Woods is similar to The Listeners.
Text Mark Evidence they shut the road through the woods… and no you would never know
Text Mark Evidence the misty solitudes (the empty hall; the still hall)
mysterious settings
quiet, lonely places
Text Mark Evidence - they planted the trees - underneath the coppice and heath, and the thin anemones (leaf-fringed sill)
overgrown setting
Text Mark Evidence of a summer evening late, when the night-air cools (moonlit door; the quiet of the moonlight)
time of day is twilight/nighttime
Text Mark Evidence - you will hear the beat of a horse’s feet and the swish of a skirt in the dew…but there is no road through the woods (a host of phantom listeners)
ghostly characters
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
RevealEvidence & Answers
2) Circle the answer which has the closest meaning to solitudes:
quiet places
forested places
places with animals
busy places
Reveal Answer
Practise & Apply
3) How many years ago was there a road through the woods?
Acceptable Points
- seventy years ago
- 70 years (ago)
Do not just accept 70/seventy without ‘years’.
RevealAnswer
Practise & Apply
4) What is the main idea or summary of The Way Through the Woods?
Tick one
The poem tells the story of a lost child wandering alone through the woods, trying to find a way home.
The poem describes a magical forest where animals talk and lead travellers along hidden paths.
The poem remembers an old road that once ran through the woods, now overgrown, hidden and forgotten.
The poem is about a traveller who knocks at the door of a quiet house, but no one answers.
Reveal Answer
Practise & Apply
5) How does the poet use senses (sight, sound, and touch) to create imagery?
Text Mark Evidence - there once was a road through the woods before they planted the trees - It is underneath the coppice and heath, and the thin anemones
sight: the animals in the woodland
Text Mark Evidence - where the ring-dove broods, and the badgers roll at ease - the trout-ringed pools
sight: the woodland where the road once was
Text Mark Evidence you will hear the beat of a horse’s feat, and the swish of a skirt in the dew
sound: ghostly echoes of the past
Text Mark Evidence - a summer evening late, when the night-air cools - the misty solitudes
touch/feel: the temperature and moisture in the air
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
RevealEvidence & Answers
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
explore different styles.
Reveal
Read rhyming poems, free verse, haikus, and limericks.
If you like this book, you might like...
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 5
Quiz Time
Start
Questions about the book so far...
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘champed’?
Fill the Gaps
hearkening
phantom
thronging
But only a host of 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 the faint moonbeams on the dark stair That goes down to the empty hall, in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller’s call.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Sequence Me
Put the following events in the correct order:
A) The Traveller called out, “Is there anybody there?”
B) The Traveller left, telling the listeners that he had kept his promise.
C) The Traveller arrived at a quiet, moonlit house and knocked on the door.
D) Inside the house, ghostly listeners stood silently, the only ones to hear his voice.
Click if correct
Check
Link Me
Link each poetic feature with the example from the poems:
A “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...
1 onomatopoeia
B Where the shy-eyed delicate deer troop down to the brook to drink...
Check
2 rhyme
Click if correct
C My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.
3 alliteration
D He waddled in the water pudge and waggle went his tail and chirrupt up his wings to dry upon the garden rail.
4 metaphor
Speaking Spotlight
Performance Podium
Explore
Performance Podium
Expression
Rehearse
Accuracy
Pace
Volume
Perform a poem from this week.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for defintions!
coppice
heath
anemones
ring-dove broods
cantering
solitudes
Explore
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Let me read today's text
Explore
The Way Through the Woods
by Rudyard Kipling
They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove broods, And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Yet, if you enter the woods Of a summer evening late, When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools Where the otter whistles his mate, (They fear not men in the woods, Because they see so few.) You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet, And the swish of a skirt in the dew, Steadily cantering through The misty solitudes, As though they perfectly knew The old lost road through the woods. But there is no road through the woods.
From: Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo © 2012. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
Teach
Your turn
Practise & Apply
Use your text
Practise & Apply
1) Give two examples of how The Way Through the Woods is similar to The Listeners.
Text Mark Evidence they shut the road through the woods… and no you would never know
Text Mark Evidence the misty solitudes (the empty hall; the still hall)
mysterious settings
quiet, lonely places
Text Mark Evidence - they planted the trees - underneath the coppice and heath, and the thin anemones (leaf-fringed sill)
overgrown setting
Text Mark Evidence of a summer evening late, when the night-air cools (moonlit door; the quiet of the moonlight)
time of day is twilight/nighttime
Text Mark Evidence - you will hear the beat of a horse’s feet and the swish of a skirt in the dew…but there is no road through the woods (a host of phantom listeners)
ghostly characters
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
RevealEvidence & Answers
2) Circle the answer which has the closest meaning to solitudes:
quiet places
forested places
places with animals
busy places
Reveal Answer
Practise & Apply
3) How many years ago was there a road through the woods?
Acceptable Points
- seventy years ago
- 70 years (ago)
Do not just accept 70/seventy without ‘years’.RevealAnswer
Practise & Apply
4) What is the main idea or summary of The Way Through the Woods?
Tick one
The poem tells the story of a lost child wandering alone through the woods, trying to find a way home.
The poem describes a magical forest where animals talk and lead travellers along hidden paths.
The poem remembers an old road that once ran through the woods, now overgrown, hidden and forgotten.
The poem is about a traveller who knocks at the door of a quiet house, but no one answers.
Reveal Answer
Practise & Apply
5) How does the poet use senses (sight, sound, and touch) to create imagery?
Text Mark Evidence - there once was a road through the woods before they planted the trees - It is underneath the coppice and heath, and the thin anemones
sight: the animals in the woodland
Text Mark Evidence - where the ring-dove broods, and the badgers roll at ease - the trout-ringed pools
sight: the woodland where the road once was
Text Mark Evidence you will hear the beat of a horse’s feat, and the swish of a skirt in the dew
sound: ghostly echoes of the past
Text Mark Evidence - a summer evening late, when the night-air cools - the misty solitudes
touch/feel: the temperature and moisture in the air
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
RevealEvidence & Answers
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
explore different styles.
Reveal
Read rhyming poems, free verse, haikus, and limericks.
If you like this book, you might like...
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.
phantom
thronging
hearkening