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 London (Richard Le Gallienne) Colonel Fazackerley (Charles Causley) Dreams (Langston Hughes) A Bird Came Down the Walk (Emily Dickinson) The Crocodile (Lewis Carroll) 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 (Rudyard Kipling) 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 (Edward Lear) 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 .