Monster Under the Couch

Primary SchoolPoetryNarrativeOne-Off WorkshopYears 3-4CharacterisationFiction

15 May

Years 3-4

One-off workshop

Students imagine a hungry monster living under their couch and write about their first epic encounter with it as a narrative poem. Students will be guided through key aspects of the form and the use of various poetic devices including repetition and simile.

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607)
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELT1692).
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words. (EN2-VOCAB-01)
Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience (EN2-CWT-01)
Once I was eating a jade green seaweed wrapped nigiri on the couch,
I went to take a bite and a piece of sashimi fell out.
I kicked them underneath and heard a shrill high-pitched trill beneath.
That’s when I saw it, Wicked Feather!
“WHAT are you doing under the couch?” I asked. To which it replied:
“I have beak as bright and vibrant as a bird of paradise”
But WHY are you under the couch?
“I have a crest as soft and silky as a velvet pillow.”
But WHY are you under the couch?
“I have wings with claws on the end shinier than a snake’s fangs.
I have been under the couch for 5 years!”
But WHY are you under the couch?
“I have been stealing all of your milk just to spoil it
AND IF I DON’T GET ENOUGH I WILL
BLOCK UP YOUR TOILET”
-Olive, Grade 3, Wentworth Falls Public School, T2 2025