Year 6 - 'Jabberwocky'

Year 6 have been reading Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’. They analysed the poem, looking for the different devices the poet had used and their final task was to write in his style.

To give you full understanding of the lesson see the Learning Objective and Success Criteria below (we use these to assess if the children have achieved what we intended them to in the lesson).

Learning Objective: To write a quatrain in the style of Lewis Carroll

Success Criteria (co-created with the class):

• Rhyming pattern, lines - 1/3 and 2/4
• Syllable count 8,8,8,6
• Portmanteau words (5 of my own).

See below for examples of our quatrains.