These KS1 'Twas the Night Before Christmas lesson plans and activities for Year 2 contain seven ready-to-teach lessons themed around this classic narrative poem. Explore and discuss the story that the poem tells and investigate some of the figurative and poetic devices used in the poem.

In this Year 2 poetry planning pack, your Year 2 class will be challenged to find patterns in the rhymes and syllables of the poem and identify noun phrases and similes throughout the story. Consolidate the children's knowledge by writing a simple list poem using similes to describe St. Nicholas and challenge them to write a poem inspired by C. Moore's classic Christmas poem.

This set of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas lesson plans comes fully prepared and ready for you to deliver to your class. There are plans, slideshows and handy printable resources to support their 'Twas the Night Before Christmas activities.

Lesson 1: Comprehension

This 'Twas the Night Before Christmas comprehension lesson introduces your KS1 class to this classic Christmas poem. During the teaching input, your Year 2 class will read through the poem together on the provided illustrated slideshow, discussing and defining any unfamiliar language. They will then discuss the story that this special poem tells.

During their independent learning tasks, your class will undertake a variety of differentiated 'Twas the Night Before Christmas reading comprehension activities.

This Year 2 reading comprehension planning pack comes with a detailed lesson plan, an engaging slideshow, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable teaching resources to support your teaching of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Stanza cards
Picture cards

Lesson 2: Performing Poetry

Use this fully resourced lesson to inspire your Year 2 class Christmas poems to perform. Ask your class to give a poetry reader some advice on how to improve their performance of the poem before following the advice themselves.

Challenge your KS1 class to perform the poem ''Twas the Night Before Christmas' together, responding to and giving each other advice as they learn their lines by heart.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Single poem slips
Poem slips
Illustration cards

Lesson 3: Rhyming Couplets

Explore and investigate this rhyming Christmas poem with your Year 2 class as they remind themselves what a rhyme is and use their knowledge to find matching rhyming words.

This rhyming couplets KS1 lesson plan and included lesson slides aim to guide your class's discussion around the rhyming pattern found in the poem ''Twas the Night Before Christmas'. The differentiated activity ideas are supported by the printable resources which challenge the children to complete rhyming couplets by matching lines from the poem or coming up with their own endings.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Poem sheet
Differentiated worksheets
Poem lines

Lesson 4: Rhythm and Syllables

Use this ready-to-teach Christmas lesson plan, remind your Year 2 class about syllables and play a few simple games to find syllables in words. After using the lesson input slides to practise, the children are challenged to find how many syllables are in a line in the poem ''Twas the Night Before Christmas'.

Coming back together, the children discuss what they notice about the syllables in a stanza and spot a pattern. The slides explain how the rhythm of the poem is created and encourage the children to find this rhythm as they read the lines. The independent task challenges the children to find the total number of syllables in selected lines from the poem, supported by the accompanying printable resources.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Stanza cards
Poem slips
Group labels

Lesson 5: Noun Phrases

This Noun Phrases Year 2 lesson pack focuses on the noun phrases in the poem ''Twas the Night Before Christmas'. The lesson input slides challenge the children to identify nouns and adjectives and describe what they are. They then use the examples they have provided to build Christmas-themed noun phrases, discussing what these are. They then work as a class to find the existing noun phrases in the poem.

The accompanying printable resources challenge the children to independently build and write their own noun phrases and write them into full sentences. This lesson pack includes everything you need to teach your class about Christmas-themed noun phrases.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Poem sheets
Noun cards
Adjective cards
Illustration cards
Differentiated worksheets

Lesson 6: Similes

This Year 2 Similes lesson introduces your class to using similes as a poetic device as they spot them in the poem ''Twas the Night Before Christmas'.

During the lesson input, the slides challenge the children to complete similes using the suggestions on the board. They then work independently to write some Christmas poetry. They will create a list poem using similes to describe St. Nicholas's appearance using the provided writing frames to support their structure.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Illustration cards

Lesson 7: Writing Rhyming Poetry

In this final lesson the children will take inspiration from the poem they have been studying. They will be challenged to write their own rhyming poem titled ''Twas the Night After Christmas' as a group, a pair, or a class during a shared write.

Using the included lesson input slides, the children will gather and discuss their ideas for their poem and think carefully about rhyming words which link. They can then use the accompanying printable resources to support them in writing rhyming couplets with a repeating line.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Rhyming word cards

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