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The Same Inside: Poems about Empathy and Friendship
The Same Inside is a sweet and thoughtful collection of poems for children, about friendship, empathy and respect by three of the nation's best-loved poets, Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Roger Stevens.
These fifty poems deal sensitively with feelings, empathy, respect, courtesy, bullying, disability and responsibility. They are the perfect springboard to start conversations.
These fifty poems deal sensitively with feelings, empathy, respect, courtesy, bullying, disability and responsibility. They are the perfect springboard to start conversations.
- GenresPoetry
94 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 11, 2018
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June 14, 2022
‘A friend ship
is a rowing boat
You both row
Alternately’
I think this book can be exciting for children aged 5+
I would recommend this as a read aloud text to smaller children ages 6–8-year-old, older children could take a photocopy of one of the poems home and come back and talk about it.
The same inside book, is a book filled with a wide range of poems based around empathy and friendship which is great for children at any age but particularly primary school children. The poems are written in different forms and layed out in a number of different ways which can be interesting to show younger children who have not seen this before.
The poem friendship does not necessarily rhyme but instead it highlights lots of different compairsing of vessels on water - rowing boat, hovercraft, sunmarine, sailing boat. All stating that they are like a friendship, the poem has taken the word ship from friendship very literally of ships.
Repeating phrase of ‘a friendship is like’ at the start of each verse is very memorable as it is the main focus of the poem. As well as the harbour’s heart stating that the harbour is alive and a person as it has a heart that will beat and keep someone alive and the possessive apostrophe used for something that belongs to a person.
The poem has been laid out in verses each having 4 rows, with the first line being a friendship is like , then the second line talking about the vessel. The third and fourth lines are what the boat is doing and where it is going.
There are many different teaching opportunities with this book.
English
Re create their own poem about what friendship is
Think about an alternative way to lay out the poem
Write a narrative story based of the poem - comic strip
Science
Experiment Material best type of boat on water
Force of water
What will float on water? why?
Geography/ history
Boats on the sea around the world
Transport - history of boats
Maths
Words problems based around boats and people
Measurement of capacity/ volume
RE/ PSHE
Friendship and kindness
is a rowing boat
You both row
Alternately’
I think this book can be exciting for children aged 5+
I would recommend this as a read aloud text to smaller children ages 6–8-year-old, older children could take a photocopy of one of the poems home and come back and talk about it.
The same inside book, is a book filled with a wide range of poems based around empathy and friendship which is great for children at any age but particularly primary school children. The poems are written in different forms and layed out in a number of different ways which can be interesting to show younger children who have not seen this before.
The poem friendship does not necessarily rhyme but instead it highlights lots of different compairsing of vessels on water - rowing boat, hovercraft, sunmarine, sailing boat. All stating that they are like a friendship, the poem has taken the word ship from friendship very literally of ships.
Repeating phrase of ‘a friendship is like’ at the start of each verse is very memorable as it is the main focus of the poem. As well as the harbour’s heart stating that the harbour is alive and a person as it has a heart that will beat and keep someone alive and the possessive apostrophe used for something that belongs to a person.
The poem has been laid out in verses each having 4 rows, with the first line being a friendship is like , then the second line talking about the vessel. The third and fourth lines are what the boat is doing and where it is going.
There are many different teaching opportunities with this book.
English
Re create their own poem about what friendship is
Think about an alternative way to lay out the poem
Write a narrative story based of the poem - comic strip
Science
Experiment Material best type of boat on water
Force of water
What will float on water? why?
Geography/ history
Boats on the sea around the world
Transport - history of boats
Maths
Words problems based around boats and people
Measurement of capacity/ volume
RE/ PSHE
Friendship and kindness
March 2, 2021
These collections of poems really touch my heart. maybe I have 1 or 2 fav author from this book. I like to read poems from Matt Goodfellow and Roger stevens. I don't know but I guess the words that they been using sink into my heart and will always be remembered by me.
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