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A Child's Garden of Verses: Poetry Lesson 4
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Why?
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O it’s I that am the captain of a tidy little ship…
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From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poet show that this is imaginative play and not a real sea voyage?
B) How does the poem suggest that the child might want to sail when he grows up?
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Let me read today's text
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My Ship and I
O it’s I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,
Of a ship that goes a-sailing on the pond;
And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about;
But when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out
How to send my vessel sailing on beyond.
For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm,
And the dolly I intend to come alive;
And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go,
It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow
And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive.
O it’s then you’ll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds,
And you’ll hear the water singing at the prow;
For besides the dolly sailor, I’m to voyage and explore,
To land upon the island where no dolly was before,
And to fire the penny cannon in the bow.
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Vocabulary
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Hover for definitions!
helm
prow
the rushes and the reeds
voyage
penny cannon
bow
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From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
I will model the first.
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
helm
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Find Read Talk
But when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out
How to send my vessel sailing on beyond.
For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm,
And the dolly I intend to come alive;
And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go...
Reveal Vocabulary
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
helm
Your turn
the rushes and the reeds
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
prow
voyage
penny cannon
bow
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
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Reveal Vocabulary
My Ship and I
O it’s I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,
Of a ship that goes a-sailing on the pond;
And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about;
But when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out
How to send my vessel sailing on beyond.
For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm,
And the dolly I intend to come alive;
And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go,
It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow
And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive.
O it’s then you’ll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds,
And you’ll hear the water singing at the prow;
For besides the dolly sailor, I’m to voyage and explore,
To land upon the island where no dolly was before,
And to fire the penny cannon in the bow.
Explore
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Fluency
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Let me use my reader's voice...
For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm, And the dolly I intend to come alive;
And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go,
It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow
And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
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From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm,
And the dolly I intend to come alive;
And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go,
It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow
And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive.
Explore
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm, And the dolly I intend to come alive;
And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go,
It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow
And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive.
Explore
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Strategy Focus
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Strategy: Main Point
A) How can you tell the adventure is imaginary and not a real sea voyage?
What's the main idea of the text?
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
O it’s I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,
Of a ship that goes a-sailing on the pond...
A) How can you tell the adventure is imaginary and not a real sea voyage?
The use of the word ‘little’ suggests that the ship is much smaller than a real vessel, hinting that it might be a toy. Instead of sailing on the open seas, it is described as sailing ‘on the pond’. The small scale of the setting highlights that the adventure must be imaginative play as a real ship would be too large to sail on a pond.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) How does the poet show that this is imaginative play and not a real sea voyage?
B) How does the poem suggest that the child might want to sail when he grows up?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - my ship keeps a-turning all around and all about - how to send my vessel sailing on beyond
the ship does not sail properly
A) How does the poet show that this is imaginative play and not a real sea voyage?
Text Mark Evidence when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out
reference to growing up
Text Mark Evidence - for I mean to grow as little as the dolly - with him (toy sailor) beside me to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go
imaginative play
Text Mark Evidence - the dolly at the helm - for besides the dolly sailor - where no dolly was before - to fire the penny cannon
references to toys
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out…how to send my vessel sailing on beyond - with him beside me to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go
desire to learn how to sail properly
B) How does the poem suggest that the child might want to sail when he grows up?
Text Mark Evidence - my vessel - at the helm - singing at the prow - in the bow
knowledge of nautical terms
Text Mark Evidence - it’s then you’ll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds - I’m to voyage and explore, to land upon the island where no dolly was before
desire to explore
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence to fire the penny cannon in the bow
desire for adventure
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘prow’?
Fill the Gaps
cannon
prow
reeds
voyage
O it’s then you’ll see me sailing through the rushes and the , And you’ll hear the water singing at the ;
For besides the dolly sailor, I’m to and explore,
To land upon the island where no dolly was before,
And to fire the penny in the bow.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Match Me
Match each word with the correct definition:
3) voyage
4) bow
1) helm
2) rushes
B) the wheel used to steer a boat
C) the front part of a ship or boat
A) tall, thin grassy plants that grow by water
D) to go on a long journey at sea
Click if correct
Check
Link Me
Link each poetic feature with its example from the poem:
A) the vessel goes a divie-divie dive
Check
1) alliteration
Click if correct
B) the rushes and the reeds
2) personification
C) I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm
3) simile
D) the water singing at the prow
4) repetition
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
share poetry.
Reveal
Read a poem to someone else and discuss what it means for both of you.
reeds
prow
voyage
cannon
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Ready Steady Read Together
A Child's Garden of Verses: 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?
O it’s I that am the captain of a tidy little ship…
How might this extract link to the illustration?
Explore
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Today's Question(s)
A) How does the poet show that this is imaginative play and not a real sea voyage?
B) How does the poem suggest that the child might want to sail when he grows up?
Explore
Let me read today's text
Explore
My Ship and I
O it’s I that am the captain of a tidy little ship, Of a ship that goes a-sailing on the pond; And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about; But when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out How to send my vessel sailing on beyond. For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm, And the dolly I intend to come alive; And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go, It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive. O it’s then you’ll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds, And you’ll hear the water singing at the prow; For besides the dolly sailor, I’m to voyage and explore, To land upon the island where no dolly was before, And to fire the penny cannon in the bow.
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Vocabulary
Explore
Hover for definitions!
helm
prow
the rushes and the reeds
voyage
penny cannon
bow
Explore
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
I will model the first.
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
helm
Explore
Find Read Talk
But when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out How to send my vessel sailing on beyond. For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm, And the dolly I intend to come alive; And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go...
Reveal Vocabulary
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
helm
Your turn
the rushes and the reeds
Find the word or phrase Read the sentence Talk about it to a partner
prow
voyage
penny cannon
bow
Use your text
Explore
Vocabulary Check & Re-read
Explore
Reveal Vocabulary
My Ship and I
O it’s I that am the captain of a tidy little ship, Of a ship that goes a-sailing on the pond; And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about; But when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out How to send my vessel sailing on beyond. For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm, And the dolly I intend to come alive; And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go, It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive. O it’s then you’ll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds, And you’ll hear the water singing at the prow; For besides the dolly sailor, I’m to voyage and explore, To land upon the island where no dolly was before, And to fire the penny cannon in the bow.
Explore
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Fluency
Explore
Let me use my reader's voice...
For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm, And the dolly I intend to come alive; And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go, It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive.
What did you notice?
Volume
Pace
Smoothness
Phrasing
Expression
Explore
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
My Turn
Your Turn
Echo Read
For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm,
And the dolly I intend to come alive;
And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go,
It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow
And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive.
Explore
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Sound like a reader!
Stand up!
Choral Read
For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm, And the dolly I intend to come alive; And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go, It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive.
Explore
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Strategy Focus
Explore
Strategy: Main Point
A) How can you tell the adventure is imaginary and not a real sea voyage?
What's the main idea of the text?
Teach
Let me show you
Reveal Text Marks
O it’s I that am the captain of a tidy little ship, Of a ship that goes a-sailing on the pond...
A) How can you tell the adventure is imaginary and not a real sea voyage?
The use of the word ‘little’ suggests that the ship is much smaller than a real vessel, hinting that it might be a toy. Instead of sailing on the open seas, it is described as sailing ‘on the pond’. The small scale of the setting highlights that the adventure must be imaginative play as a real ship would be too large to sail on a pond.
Reveal Explainer
Teach
From: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1885. Public Domain applies.
Strategy Stop
What else could you use to answer today's question(s)?
Teach
Your Turn
A) How does the poet show that this is imaginative play and not a real sea voyage?
B) How does the poem suggest that the child might want to sail when he grows up?
Find the answers
Text mark
Explore
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - my ship keeps a-turning all around and all about - how to send my vessel sailing on beyond
the ship does not sail properly
A) How does the poet show that this is imaginative play and not a real sea voyage?
Text Mark Evidence when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out
reference to growing up
Text Mark Evidence - for I mean to grow as little as the dolly - with him (toy sailor) beside me to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go
imaginative play
Text Mark Evidence - the dolly at the helm - for besides the dolly sailor - where no dolly was before - to fire the penny cannon
references to toys
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Practise & Apply
Acceptable Answers
Text Mark Evidence - when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out…how to send my vessel sailing on beyond - with him beside me to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go
desire to learn how to sail properly
B) How does the poem suggest that the child might want to sail when he grows up?
Text Mark Evidence - my vessel - at the helm - singing at the prow - in the bow
knowledge of nautical terms
Text Mark Evidence - it’s then you’ll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds - I’m to voyage and explore, to land upon the island where no dolly was before
desire to explore
Click on the evidence to reveal acceptable answers
Text Mark Evidence to fire the penny cannon in the bow
desire for adventure
Practise & Apply
Quiz Time
Start
Picture Me
Which image is the best match for ‘prow’?
Fill the Gaps
cannon
prow
reeds
voyage
O it’s then you’ll see me sailing through the rushes and the , And you’ll hear the water singing at the ; For besides the dolly sailor, I’m to and explore, To land upon the island where no dolly was before, And to fire the penny in the bow.
Discuss then check
Click if correct
Match Me
Match each word with the correct definition:
3) voyage
4) bow
1) helm
2) rushes
B) the wheel used to steer a boat
C) the front part of a ship or boat
A) tall, thin grassy plants that grow by water
D) to go on a long journey at sea
Click if correct
Check
Link Me
Link each poetic feature with its example from the poem:
A) the vessel goes a divie-divie dive
Check
1) alliteration
Click if correct
B) the rushes and the reeds
2) personification
C) I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm
3) simile
D) the water singing at the prow
4) repetition
Feedback: Who did what well?
FindRead Talk
EchoRead
ChoralRead
ReadingStrategy
Answers & Text Marks
Other...
To be a book lover, you could...
share poetry.
Reveal
Read a poem to someone else and discuss what it means for both of you.
reeds
prow
voyage
cannon