Year 2 The Magic Box: reading imaginative poetry worksheet

“What does it make you feel?” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 English unit “The Magic Box: reading imaginative poetry”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 26 to 27 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

What does it make you feel?

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can say what a poem makes me picture and feel, and why my answer is mine.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which one has the capital letters right?
ola and i saw a fox.Ola and I saw a fox.Ola And I saw a fox.
2.
Which mark ends this sentence? Can you see the moon
?.!
3.
Which word tells how Ali feels? Ali was glad. Circle one.
gladAliwas

B Watch me, then you4 min

Read this made-up line aloud. Watch one reader answer it, then try two yourself.

A soft grey sky low over a quiet hill at dawn

Watch me

Line: The sky is a grey blanket.

I picture a heavy, quiet sky, pulled low over the hills.

It makes me feel sleepy and cosy.

Now you

1.
Read this line: “The moon is a silver coin.” What do you picture?
2.
How does the line “The moon is a silver coin.” make you feel? Write one feeling and why.

C Your turn6 min

Each line is made up. Read it out loud, then write what it makes you picture or feel.

1.
“The rain is a drum that never stops.” What do you picture or feel?
2.
“The night is a black cloth with holes.” What do you picture or feel?
3.
“My kite is a bird pulling at its string.” What do you picture or feel?
4.
“The sea is a sheet of glass.” What picture or feeling does this line give you?

Say it out loud: Did you and your grown-up get different pictures? Both can be right if you can say why.

D Spot the mistake3 min

Ali says: “The rain drum line makes me feel cosy. So feeling scared by it is wrong.”

1.
What is wrong with what Ali says? Write one sentence.

E Think deeper3 min

A small window at night with one star above a village roof

1.
Make up one new line with a picture in it. Then write two different feelings a reader might have.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

What does it make you feel? · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Ola and I saw a fox. If your child picks the first card, the name and the word I have no capitals. Say: Ola is a name, and I is always a capital.

2. ? If your child picks the full stop, ask: is this sentence asking something or telling something? Questions end with a question mark.

3. glad If your child picks Ali, say: Ali is the name of the person. The feeling word is the one that tells how Ali is.

B

1. Look for: Something the child pictures from the moon line, written in their own words.

2. Look for: One feeling word and a reason linked to the moon line.

C

1. Look for: A picture or feeling about the rain drum line, with a reason.

2. Look for: A picture or feeling about the night cloth line, with a reason.

3. Look for: A picture or feeling about the kite bird line, with a reason.

4. Look for: A picture or feeling about the sea glass line, with a reason.

D

1. Look for: Says that people can feel different things about a poem and that all of them can be right. If your child agrees with Ali, point to the scale. Many different feelings sit on it. Ask: have you ever felt differently from someone else about the same thing?

E

1. Look for: A new line that makes a picture, plus two different feelings a reader might have.

Words to use

Say“What picture did the line put in your mind? And how did it make you feel? Both answers can be right.”

Instead of“That is not what the poem means. Let me tell you the right feeling.”

After the sheet

Read a line from a book at home together. Each of you says one picture and one feeling, then you explain why. Swap turns.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

4 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Reading with expression(with a plan)
The magic box(with a plan)
My Special Bag Poem(with a plan)
Perform with voice and hands(with a plan)

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