Writing Models Year 4

Pie Corbett

• Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781136742354
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Teachers who want to cut lesson planning time should welcome this series. The new editions are revised in line with the new literacy framework and bring you new models. Writing Models aims to help teachers cover every sort of writing type they need; fine tune lessons by following key teaching points for each model; and deliver the new literacy unit

Poetry models

TERM 1: POEMS ON A THEME (Easier)

Six Ways of Looking at the Moon

1. The moon is a

pebble thrown high

onto the dark tarmac

of the night.

2. The moon is a

thumbprint stamped

on an ink pad.

3. The moon is a

giant’s white thumbnail.

4. The moon is a

ghostly galleon

on the dark sea.

5. The moon is a

hole left by a careless tailor

in a dark canvas.

6. The moon is

a silvery c.d.

playing endless silence.

Pie Corbett

TERM 1: POEMS ON A THEME (Harder)

The Moon

What’s the moon doing

Up so soon?

It’s early afternoon

And there it is,

A ghost-moon,

Fooling about

In the sky …

Is it playing a joke?

Will owls patrol fields in broad daylight?

Will the night staff clock on for duty?

Will bats swoop across playgrounds for midges?

Whatever is the matter –

Has the moon gone mad as the hatter?

Will the sun retaliate –

Stay up late,

And appear at midnight

To lighten the lanes,

To frighten the shadows away?

If daylight struck at midnight –

Would cats creep back, confused?

Would the dawn chorus start up, hours early?

Would night nurses clock off

and catch the night bus home,

bewildered by the town clock?

Yes, what’s the moon doing

Mucking about in the daylight?

Pie Corbett

TERM 1: POEMS ON A THEME – WISHES AND DREAMS (Easier)

I Wish …

I wish I could be small enough

To wear a foxglove for a hat.

I wish I could sleep all night

Under a roof tile and chatter

To the sparrows that nest there.

I wish I could be a dragonfly

And hover like a miniature helicopter

On the school pond.

I wish I could hide inside

A daffodil’s trumpet and keep the world at bay.

I wish I could wear a snail’s shell

To protect me from angry words.

I wish I could be a note

In an eagle’s call as it hovers

High above the mountain’s edge.

I wish I could blossom on a gorse bush

And smell of yellow coconut.

I wish I could be an apple seed

So that I could grow an orchard.

I wish I could be the pause

Just before an unkind word is spoken

So that I could stretch the pause for ever.

I wish that I could be

The moment when a laugh takes root

And blossoms in your mouth

And I’d stay there for ever

Trapped in that second of sweet light.

Pie Corbett

TERM 1: POEMS ON A THEME – WI...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Poetry models
• Fiction models
• Non-fiction models
• Teachers’ notes