Lesson 4

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Before you start Reading
● Which poems or poets do you like? Why?
● What’s your favourite poem? What’s special 2 Read Sara’s paragraph
about Bed in Summer.
about it?
Answer the questions.
● Which do you think is more difficult to write,
a poem or a story? Why?

My favourite poem is Bed in

Summer because it
describes how I felt when I
was young. In the summer I had to go to
bed when it was light and I hated it. Like the
author I wanted to be outside playing and I
didn’t think it was fair that everyone else was
outside having fun.

It’s a good length for a poem, only three

verses and I like the fact that the words
rhyme. I don’t like poems which don’t rhyme.
The first two lines rhyme, ‘night’ and ‘light’
and then the next two lines rhyme, ‘way’ and
Writing ‘day’. This makes it easy to say and easy
to remember!
1 Look back at the poem Bed in Summer and
complete the mind map. There is one part
of the mind map you can’t complete yet. Robert Louis Stevenson was ill when he was a
What is it? child and stayed in bed a lot. That’s why I think
Robert Louis he wrote this poem.
Stevenson
a Why does Sara like this poem?
Sara likes this poem because it describes how
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she felt when she was young.
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of verses b What does Sara think is good about

the poem?
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c What kind of poetry does she dislike?

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d What reason does she give for the author

Why you
writing this poem?
like it
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Something you
didn’t like
Your favourite
part Writing
3 Write a short review of your favourite
poem. Use the mind map.

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