Ready Steady Read Together
Hot Like Fire: Poetry Lesson 5
Quiz Time
Start
Questions about the book so far...
Link Me
Link each poem’s title with its summary:
A) describes the year changing as a person aging
1 Seasons
B) describes what the speaker would do if they ran away to the forest
2 A Tree Felled
Check
C) describes nature reacting to a total eclipse
3 Just Wait
Click if correct
D) reflects on a tree being chopped down
4 Total Eclipse
Which One's Right?
Which theme connects all of these poems?
A space
B nature and theworld around us
C people growing up
D magic
Tick Me
How does the poet make animals and trees seem special in these poems?
Tick one:
A by making them talk
Check
B by ignoring them
C by describing them like humans
Click if correct
True or False?
None of these poems have rhyming words.
True
False
Speaking Spotlight
Performance Podium
Explore
Performance Podium
Expression
Rehearse
Accuracy
Pace
Volume
In groups, choose a poemfrom this week to perform.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
recoils
stallion
fashions
wispy
ethereal
titans
Explore
From: Hot Like Fire and Other Poems by Valerie Bloom © 2002. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Let me read today's text
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In an Aeroplane
The ground recoils beneath us as we speed away from Earth,
There’s a roar like a volcano or a hippo giving birth,
Our silver stallion leaps the clouds, thunders towards the blue,
And we gasp in wonder at the sight that opens to our view.
The golden ball is slowly sinking, but before it goes
It sheds light on blue and white and fashions bright rainbows
From drops of moisture – tears of mist and sweat of hurrying cloud,
Wispy trees stand to attention, ethereal and proud.
The cotton-candy mountains rise like titans on the right,
Below, the azure rivers lap the beaches of the night,
Wide fields of fleecy crops stretch for miles like virgin snow,
And softly shifting fingers point the way that we should go.
From: Hot Like Fire and Other Poems by Valerie Bloom © 2002. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
Teach
Your turn
Practise & Apply
Use your text
Practise & Apply
1) There’s a roar like a volcano or a hippo giving birth
Why do you think the poet chose these similes to describe the aeroplane taking off?
Acceptable Answers:
- to show how loud the aeroplane taking off was
Reveal Answer
Practise & Apply
2) How do you think the people on the aeroplane feel? What gives you that impression?
Text Mark Evidence we gasp in wonder…
amazed / in awe at the incredible sights
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
RevealEvidence & Answers
3) The golden ball is slowly sinking…
What do you think is happening in this line?
Acceptable Answers:
Reveal Answer
Practise & Apply
4) Summarise what you think the whole poem is about.
Acceptable Answers:
- the view and what someone can see as they look out of the aeroplane window after take off
Reveal Answer
Practise & Apply
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
collect your favourites.
Reveal
Keep a notebook of poems you love or that inspire you.
If you like this book, you might like...
Copyright Notice
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Ready Steady Read Together
Hot Like Fire: Poetry Lesson 5
Quiz Time
Start
Questions about the book so far...
Link Me
Link each poem’s title with its summary:
A) describes the year changing as a person aging
1 Seasons
B) describes what the speaker would do if they ran away to the forest
2 A Tree Felled
Check
C) describes nature reacting to a total eclipse
3 Just Wait
Click if correct
D) reflects on a tree being chopped down
4 Total Eclipse
Which One's Right?
Which theme connects all of these poems?
A space
B nature and theworld around us
C people growing up
D magic
Tick Me
How does the poet make animals and trees seem special in these poems?
Tick one:
A by making them talk
Check
B by ignoring them
C by describing them like humans
Click if correct
True or False?
None of these poems have rhyming words.
True
False
Speaking Spotlight
Performance Podium
Explore
Performance Podium
Expression
Rehearse
Accuracy
Pace
Volume
In groups, choose a poemfrom this week to perform.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
recoils
stallion
fashions
wispy
ethereal
titans
Explore
From: Hot Like Fire and Other Poems by Valerie Bloom © 2002. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Let me read today's text
Explore
In an Aeroplane
The ground recoils beneath us as we speed away from Earth, There’s a roar like a volcano or a hippo giving birth, Our silver stallion leaps the clouds, thunders towards the blue, And we gasp in wonder at the sight that opens to our view. The golden ball is slowly sinking, but before it goes It sheds light on blue and white and fashions bright rainbows From drops of moisture – tears of mist and sweat of hurrying cloud, Wispy trees stand to attention, ethereal and proud. The cotton-candy mountains rise like titans on the right, Below, the azure rivers lap the beaches of the night, Wide fields of fleecy crops stretch for miles like virgin snow, And softly shifting fingers point the way that we should go.
From: Hot Like Fire and Other Poems by Valerie Bloom © 2002. Licensed under CLA. Do not copy or share.
Strategy Stop
Teach
Your turn
Practise & Apply
Use your text
Practise & Apply
1) There’s a roar like a volcano or a hippo giving birth Why do you think the poet chose these similes to describe the aeroplane taking off?
Acceptable Answers:
Reveal Answer
Practise & Apply
2) How do you think the people on the aeroplane feel? What gives you that impression?
Text Mark Evidence we gasp in wonder…
amazed / in awe at the incredible sights
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
RevealEvidence & Answers
3) The golden ball is slowly sinking… What do you think is happening in this line?
Acceptable Answers:
Reveal Answer
Practise & Apply
4) Summarise what you think the whole poem is about.
Acceptable Answers:
Reveal Answer
Practise & Apply
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
collect your favourites.
Reveal
Keep a notebook of poems you love or that inspire you.
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: Hot Like Fire and Other Poems by Valerie Bloom © 2002 Schools must purchase the original text for full content.