Santoor, period by period — fitted to your timetable.
Tell Meyy your periods and their length; it plans every chapter of Santoor to fit, and you tick off sections as you teach.
First Meeting with the Poem
Reading · read-aloud
This is the poem's first encounter: the goal is sound and rhythm, not comprehension analysis. Students who are unfamiliar with the word 'bow' may think of an archer's bow; hold that thought for the word-meaning discussion in a later sitting rather than rushing it now.
0–8Teacher reads the poem aloud twice at a natural, expressive pace, pausing at each stanza break. Students follow in their textbooks (pp.27–28) without speaking.
8–18Teacher reads aloud a third time, inviting students to join in softly on the repeated phrase 'prettier far than these.' Attention is drawn to the two stanzas and how each ends on the same line.
18–30Students read aloud in pairs — one reads stanza 1, the partner reads stanza 2 — switching roles once. Teacher circulates, modelling pronunciation of 'overtops' and 'heaven'.
30–40Whole-class read: all voices together, teacher conducting the pace. Teacher asks: 'What two things is the poet comparing in stanza one? What two things in stanza two?' Students respond orally; no written record expected yet.
Learning outcome. Student identifies textual evidence and traces pronoun reference using a poem as the vehicle.
In the second stanza of the poem, Rossetti calls the rainbow 'the bow that bridges heaven.' Which of the following best explains what the word 'bow' means in that line?
- A A boat that sails on a river
- B A knot tied on a ribbon
- C A weapon used to shoot arrows
- D The curved arch of the rainbow in the sky
D. The curved arch of the rainbow in the sky
What each wrong option reveals
- A Reveals a misreading that confuses the poem's water imagery in stanza one with the sky imagery in stanza two.
- B Indicates the student is thinking of everyday ribbon-bows rather than the poem's imagery of a great arch in the sky.
- C Suggests the student has taken the most familiar meaning of 'bow' without reading the context of the sky and heaven.
Also saved as 10 periods or 13 periods.
- 2Choral Recitation and Rhythm Work
Reading - 3Reading for Meaning — Comprehension Discussion
Reading - 4Discussing Rainbows — Guided Conversation
Oracy - 5Listening for Rhyme — Circle Activity
Oracy - 6Reciting with Expression — Three Voices
Oracy - 7Unscrambling Poem Words
Word Work - 8Poem Exploration — Spin and Respond
Word Work - 9Opposites Beginning with S
Word Work - 10Colours in the Kitchen — Spice Vocabulary
Word Work - 11Writing About a Journey — Guided Paragraph
Writing - 12Compound Words — Building Word Pairs
Writing - 13Words as Nouns and Verbs — Sentence Writing
Writing - 14Designing a Flowerpot Friend and Mixing Colours
Beyond Text - 15Boats and Rainbows — Explore and Discuss
Beyond Text - 16Whole-Chapter Synthesis — The Rainbow Revisited
Synthesis
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