Year Four to Six
Core Knowledge UK
Year Four
Core Knowledge Strands of Progression: Language and Literature
Strand B: Poetry
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Poems
Poems
Poems
Become familiar with the following works:
 At the Zoo (William Makepeace Thackeray)
 By Myself (Eloise Greenfield)
 Catch a Little Rhyme (Eve Merriam)
 Colonel Fazackerley (Charles Causley)
 The Crocodile (Lewis Carroll)
 The Dragon on the Playground (Kenn Nesbitt)
 Daddy Fell into the Pond (Alfred Noyes)
 Dream Variations (Langston Hughes)
 Eletelephony (Laura Richards)
 Father William (Lewis Carroll)
 For want of a nail, the shoe was lost…
(traditional)
 Happiness (A. A. Milne)
 Topsy Turvey World (William Brighty Rands)
 Trees (Sergeant Joyce Kilmer)
Become familiar with the following works:
 Afternoon on a Hill (Edna St Vincent Millay)
 Clouds (Christina Rossetti)
 Ducks’ Ditty (Kenneth Grahame)
 Dreams (Langston Hughes)
 Driving Home (Gerard Benson)
 The drum (Nikki Giovanni)
 Fog (Carl Sandburg)
 Humanity (Elma Stuckey)
 I am the Song (Charles Causley)
 The Lady of Shallot (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
 Life Doesn’t Frighten Me (Maya Angelou)
 Macavity (T. S. Eliot)
 Monday’s Child Is Fair of Face (traditional)
 The Pobble Who Has No Toes (Edward Lear)
 The Rhinoceros (Ogden Nash)
 Sky in the Pie!(Roger McGough)
 Things (Eloise Greenfield)
 A Tragic Story (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Become familiar with the following works:
 The Arrow and the Song (Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow)
 A Ballad of London (Richard Le Gallienne)
 A Bird Came Down the Walk (Emily Dickinson)
 The Eagle (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
 Into My Heart an Air that Chills (A. E. Houseman)
 Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll)
 Jerusalem (William Blake)
 The Listeners (Walter de la Mare)
 Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (Roald Dahl)
 The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
 A Smugglers’ Song (Rudyard Kipling)
 The Soldier (Rupert Brooke)
 The Tiger (William Blake)
 The Way through the Woods (Rudyard Kipling)
 A Wise Old Owl (Edward Hersey Richards)
Literary Terms
Become familiar with the following literary terms:
 Onomatopoeia
 Alliteration
Become familiar with and able to use the following literary
terms:
 Stanza and line
 Rhythm
 Rhyme
 Mood
Updated September 2012
Literary Terms
Core Knowledge UK
Updated September 2012
Year Four to Six