WALT UNDERSTAND THE FEATURES OF A CLERIHEW POEM

WALT: UNDERSTAND THE FEATURES OF A CLERIHEW POEM

Key words: - Rhyme scheme: the ordered pattern of words at the end of a line in a poem. - Rhyming couplet: when two lines of the same length rhyme. - Text marking: picking out and underlining features of a text with different colours to create a key. - WAGOLL: What A Good One Looks Like

What is a clerihew poem? It is a form of poetry that is traditionally used to describe or give an account of a person. They are short poems that consist of four lines and they have a rhyme scheme of AABB. This means that the words at the end of the lines rhyme. These are called rhyming couplets. Here is an example of an AABB rhyme scheme: Mr Hopkin is a teacher (A) Because he didn’t want to become a preacher (A) He loves his job with all his heart (B) And from his class he never wishes to be apart. (B)rhyming couplet

You are going to create your own clerihew poem about a place – The Amazon Rainforest. Today you are going to look at two WAGOLL’s of clerihew poems about the amazon rainforest and create your own key for the features that are used to create them. Down in the Amazon Rainforest, the world is alive. Under the canopy, you can dive. You’ll see beautiful birds, colourful and bright, Everywhere you look, it’s a phenomenal sight. In the Amazon toucan beaks are as yellow as the sun, Flamingoes dancing and having fun. Amazing birds, gliding and swooping. Parrots loudly squawking and tunefully whooping.

This is what your key may look like: Adjectives Verbs punctuation These are just three of the features you can find. What else can you pick out and underline? You are used to text marking WAGOLL’s and need to use different colours to underline the features you can see are being used.