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Poems inspired by the world all around us.

* Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.

* Text type – A poetry book.

* Pages 30 and 31 tie many of the poems together in a reader response page that shows the river’s journey to the sea, and can be used as a prompt for speaking and listening activities.

* Curriculum links – Geography: ‘use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather’.