Core Knowledge UK Year Four to Six

Core Knowledge Strands of Progression: Language and Literature Strand B: Poetry Year Four Year Five Year Six

Poems Poems Poems

Become familiar with the following works: Become familiar with the following works: Become familiar with the following works:  At the Zoo (William Makepeace Thackeray)  Afternoon on a Hill (Edna St Vincent Millay)  The Arrow and the Song (Henry Wadsworth  By Myself (Eloise Greenfield)  Clouds (Christina Rossetti) Longfellow)  Catch a Little Rhyme (Eve Merriam)  Ducks’ Ditty (Kenneth Grahame)  A Ballad of (Richard Le Gallienne)  Colonel Fazackerley (Charles Causley)  Dreams (Langston Hughes)  A Bird Came Down the Walk (Emily Dickinson)  The Crocodile ()  Driving Home (Gerard Benson)  The Eagle (Alfred Lord Tennyson)  The Dragon on the Playground (Kenn Nesbitt)  The drum (Nikki Giovanni)  Into My Heart an Air that Chills (A. E. Houseman)  Daddy Fell into the Pond (Alfred Noyes)  Fog (Carl Sandburg)  Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll)  Dream Variations (Langston Hughes)  Humanity (Elma Stuckey)  Jerusalem (William Blake)  Eletelephony (Laura Richards)  I am the Song (Charles Causley)  The Listeners (Walter de la Mare)  Father William (Lewis Carroll)  The Lady of Shallot (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)  Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (Roald Dahl)  For want of a nail, the shoe was lost…  Life Doesn’t Frighten Me (Maya Angelou)  The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost) (traditional)  Macavity (T. S. Eliot)  A Smugglers’ Song ()  Happiness (A. A. Milne)  Monday’s Child Is Fair of Face (traditional)  The Soldier (Rupert Brooke)  Topsy Turvey World (William Brighty Rands)  The Pobble Who Has No Toes ()  The Tiger (William Blake)  Trees (Sergeant Joyce Kilmer)  The Rhinoceros (Ogden Nash)  The Way through the Woods (Rudyard Kipling)  Sky in the Pie!(Roger McGough)  A Wise Old Owl (Edward Hersey Richards)  Things (Eloise Greenfield)  A Tragic Story (William Makepeace Thackeray) Literary Terms

Literary Terms Become familiar with the following literary terms:  Onomatopoeia Become familiar with and able to use the following literary  Alliteration terms:  Stanza and line  Rhythm  Rhyme  Mood Updated September 2012

Core Knowledge UK Year Four to Six

Updated September 2012