Performance Poetry: The Sorting Hat Song

A whole unit of work based on The Sorting Hat Song as part of our Harry Potter unit of work. The children will write a class poem using a range of Sorting Hat songs written over the Potter series of books by JK Rowling. It forms part of our topic and English unit ‘Gateways to the Wizarding World’. My class have loved the unit and learning more about how Hogwarts was formed and why the sorting hat exists. The unit lasts approximately 2 weeks (11 teaching sessions). All objectives come from the English National Curriculum for Year 3/ Lower Key Stage 2.
Resource includes: Lessson PowerPoint with learning objectives, Grammar Geek (How to use this is below), lesson activities and planning. All resources are editable.
How to use Grammar Geek:

• Introduce the session slide, read out each objective. The colours show level of difficulty: Red - easy, Yellow - medium, Green - harder, Purple - challenge.
• Give children 5 minutes to complete as much as they can. Support can be given. We complete ours in silence and adults support children across the class.
• After 5 minutes, invite individual children to read the objective and give their answer with explanation e.g. I have put a comma here and full stop at the end because it has two clauses in this sentence.
• After children’s responses, show the ‘teacher’ responses and discuss reasons behind each answer.

The aim of Grammar Geek is to increase the children’s knowledge and understanding of grammar whilst engaging them in the unit of work.

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