The Coming of the Iron Man
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This audio poem by Brenda Williams is based closely on the opening chapter of the well-known story, The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.
Shared learning and teaching
- Listen to the poem without prior discussion. Collect first responses. What do the children think it is about?
- Listen again, giving specific clues to listen for. Ask for feedback again, and establish what is happening, justifying with words or phrases from the poem.
- Ask children to imagine they are hidden on the beach, first at the beginning of the poem, then at daybreak. Listen to the poem, recording what they would hear, see, smell and feel. Discuss ideas, exploring why they would see/hear/feel things not explicitly stated.
- Describe the Iron Man, referring to the poem’s imagery to explain how information about his size, appearance and mystery is conveyed. Discuss the descriptive devices used, introducing and explaining appropriate vocabulary (image, figurative, adjective, metaphor, simile, vivid).
- Start a Working Wall display of the similes, metaphors and adjectives used. Discuss the effect of headlamp eyes… crablike hand.
- Look at how repetition and near repetition are used for effect, as in Crashing… crashing; Scattered and battered; Silence, silence.
Published 1 May 2008
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Amy
on 13 September 2014The iron man
The book is so babyish except from the vocabulary
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maggie
on 24 September 2013coming of the iron man (poem)
we listened to this poem in class.I think its a very creative poem.I love it so much I have a copy of it in my room , and I read it every night.Its very well thought over. Probably the best poem about the iron man I've every heard.
regards
maggie
P.S I am not a stuck up!!!!! -
leah
on 4 March 2013iron man
it is fantaby toesy well done author not its a terrible book
0/10
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jessica
on 22 May 2012the iron man
i would say that this poem is so good i wish i can make a as good but im only 8 so i think i could but reading chapters all of them from the iron man book are very very very good indeed at school we are having a iron man assembly and im the iron man hand when on the hill in chapter 2 i like being it but it is kind of strange but i think ted huges is a great writer so as brenda willams.
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Chanterelle
on 1 February 2012The coming of the iron man
I love this book cause I read it in class
5 out of 5 -
sarah
on 2 January 2012the coming of the iron man
i dont like the poem because i dont know what it is about
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moz
on 15 August 2011Iron Man
Fantastic resouces linked to a terrific novel. Adaptable for most of KS2.
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alex
on 23 January 2011the Iron man body
The iron man is as tall as a house .
His head is as big as a bedroom
but shaped like a dust bin.
body is made out of iron. -
kiernan
on 9 November 2010the Iron man
where the Iron man in his trap
lilly
on 7 January 2015
the robot of iron man
i like iron man ted hughes