{"id":8558,"date":"2022-05-06T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/?p=8558"},"modified":"2022-05-09T06:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T06:38:56","slug":"a-load-of-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/a-load-of-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"A Load of Nonsense!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>My daughter&#8217;s favourite poem in English is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/43188\/the-owl-and-the-pussy-cat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Owl and The Pussycat<\/a> <\/em>by Edward Lear which she is proud to now be able to recite <strong>by heart<\/strong>! This is an example of <strong>nonsense poetry<\/strong>, where nothing really makes sense, which is why children like it of course \ud83d\ude42 However, <strong>rhyming poetry<\/strong> is a great way to learn language, particularly <strong>pronunciation<\/strong> in English where <strong>rhyming words often do not look alike<\/strong>. So, I have tried my hand at writing a poem which <strong>I invite you to complete by clicking on the image below<\/strong>. And if you&#8217;re feeling really brave you could try reading another nonsense poem, The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/42916\/jabberwocky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Jabberwocky<\/em><\/a>, where half of the words are actually <strong>made up<\/strong> by the poet!<\/h4>\n<h4>Ed Taylor (Head of Studies at KT)<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/quizzes\/find-the-rhyme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8549 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bearbird-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bearbird-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bearbird-1024x592.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bearbird-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bearbird.jpg 1232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter&#8217;s favourite poem in English is The Owl and The Pussycat by Edward Lear which she is proud to now be able to recite&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publica",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}