P4 have been successful learners by comparing and contrasting ‘The Cook Up’ from George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl, with ‘Double, Double Toil and Trouble’ by William Shakespeare. They used a key to identify and highlight repetition, onomatopoeia, alliteration and rhyming patterns. Then they transferred what they had learned to create their own poetry using these literacy techniques. Finally, they created a PowerPoint document in their Teams folder with a spooky background to present their poems.
Here is an example of one of the poems by Naomie.