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Building imagery in poetry: using powerful verbs and adverbs
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Year 3 poetry – 14 of the best worksheets and lessons for LKS2
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Give Y3 children a great grounding in poems and poetry writing with this selection of ideas, activities and teaching tools for your English lessons…
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1 | Poetry model text resource packs
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These Y3 Real Writing poetry resources use model texts as the jumping off point to cover different subjects.
The first two-week unit is based around volcanoes, while the second is structured around the present perfect tense.
In each one, children will look at the etymology and morphology of words, and consider some of the structural features of poetry, before finally writing their own poem using the same structure as the model text.
Click the links below to check them out.
- Year 3 – Volcano
- Year 3 – I Have…
2 | Five poets read their poems
Made for National Poetry Day , these videos explore how ‘truth’ might inspire a poet, so here you can watch Karl Nova, Michael Rosen, Rachel Rooney, Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Joseph Coelho reading their poems, and you can also download the full text of the poems, and suggestions for teaching and learning activities related to each one .
You’ll find all this here.
3 | Pie Corbett poetry lessons
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Inspire KS2 pupils to be creative and express themselves with our Pie Corbett KS2 poetry collection .
These Talk for Writing resources contains Powerpoints, KS2 poems and PDFs full of ideas to supercharge your English lessons.
4 | Dr Seuss poetry pack
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This National Poetry Day pack for KS1 and LKS2 includes activity sheets based on three Dr Seuss poems, the master of wordplay!
Year 3/4 learners are invited to think about what Oh The Places You’ll Go! means to them.
Check it out here.
5 | Joseph Coelho resources and advice
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Writing poetry can act as a release valve, allowing trapped feelings to escape, says poet Joseph Coelho.
In this article he tells you how, and there are also links to resources to help you on your way.
Read his advice here.
6 | A poem a day
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Want to expose children to the amazing language of nearly 2,000 different poems? Start by reading just one a day.
That’s the advice from Tre Christopher and Pet Henshaw who explain here why and how you can do this, what poems you should try and what resources will help.
7 | Write spooky sound poems inspired by Neil Gaiman
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Getting children to write great poetry can sometimes be a bit hit and miss, but if they are given a clear framework and a fun hook, it can be a really rewarding experience.
This lesson shows how a well-known poem can be combined with a fantastic picture book to offer children a language rich stimulus that will enable them to write their own successful piece of poetry.
Get this resource here.
8 | LKS2 ‘The Eagle’ poetry lesson pack
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This poetry pack, based around the classic poem ‘The Eagle’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, contains lesson ideas that could be completed over a series of five sessions for Year 3 and Year 4.
Pupils will explore the author’s use of language, including figurative language, and how this is used to describe. They will identify examples of adjectives, similes, personification and alliteration.
They will also have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the poem by completing comprehension activities and, finally, create their own poems.
Give it a look here.
9 | Feelings and emotions acrostic poem pack
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This resource focuses on acrostic poems, using abstract nouns which show feelings and emotions to create the themes for writing.
Pupils can discuss feelings and emotions, and how it is normal to feel a range of these, covering aspects of primary statutory guidance for Health Education.
This primary resource pack includes an abstract nouns word mat, a selection of words like ‘beauty’, ‘truth’, ‘freedom’ and ‘love’ to help children with their poems, acrostic poem examples, three example poems, a planning sheet, writing sheets and templates, and teacher’s notes.
Give all this a look here.
10 | Creating imaginative characterisation in poetry lesson
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Writing is hard; writing poetry is even harder. You have a lot to think about: structure, rhythm, rhyme and so on. Creating scaffolds for children can help them to really concentrate on the words they are using rather than structure.
In this lesson plan your students are going to take the basic creative structure of a poem and edit it to create a new one.
Through doing this they are going to look at how Michael Rosen’s piece ‘No Breathing in Class’ can be used to teach children how to use characterisation.
11 | Bonfire Night acrostic poem resource pack
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Explore the sights and sounds of Bonfire Night and fireworks using this acrostic poetry resource.
Pupils can develop their ideas using a model poem and images provided before writing their own acrostic poems on the theme of fireworks, bonfires and bonfire night.
See what’s included here.
12 | Christmas poems
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Sticking with a seasonal theme, this ”Twas the Night Before Christmas’ festive writing and poetry resources pack is perfect for Lower KS2.
So keep pupils in Year 3 and year 4 engaged and motivated to write right up until Christmas using our writing pack based on the classic poem ‘Twas the Night before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore.
Pupils will read and perform the poem, exploring new vocabulary and the author’s use of language before writing additional stanzas for the poem in a similar style. Finally, pupils will write their own short poems about Christmas morning, based on the classic poem by Clement Clarke Moore.
13 | Write mischievous poems like Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes
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Roald Dahl took traditional fairy stories and turned them into wonderfully wicked Revolting Rhymes .
With a structured approach, this lesson plan can help your class do the same.
Download it here.
14 | Nature poems and outdoor learning
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Explore nature through children’s poetry and creative writing with poet Zaro Weil’s advice on the energising double act of poetry and nature.
Read her advice and download a free PDF of three nature poetry activities to try with your students here.
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A collection of learning resources from The Poetry Society
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We are the Sea
This resource brings together poetry and science to explore the relationship between humans and the sea. It focuses on whales, and includes discussion points and creative writing activities inspired by Isaac Graaf's 'The New Guy', a winning poem from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2006.
Key Stages 1 & 2
Topics: whales, echolocation, humans and the sea, sealife
Literary features: point of view, comic voice
Teachers can also download a lesson plan featuring the same poem in the form of a slide deck.
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We are the Universe
This resource brings together poetry and science to explore the relationship between the way we are all connected because we all came from stars. It includes discussion points and creative writing activities inspired by 'Roll up! Roll up!', a new poem by Cheryl Moskowitz, commissioned for About Us.
Key Stages 1-3
Topics: Earth and space, the journey of star, supernova, light years, black holes
Literary features: rhyme, syllabics, glose poems
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‘A poem is…’ with Disney Junior
Together with Disney Junior, the Poetry Society commissioned poet Coral Rumble to write a guide to help parents and carers enjoy poetry with under 7’s to accompany the Disney animated ‘A Poem is…’ series. ‘A Poem is…’ launched in summer 2012 and showcases poetry set to iconic moments from some of Disney’s classic animation films such as Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and Pinocchio. Celebrities Matt Smith, David Walliams, Richard Briers CBE, Jessica Hynes and Michelle Dockery are among the all star cast who have teamed up to narrate the series.
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Sefton's Wonderous Waterways: Poetry Trail Learning Resource
Poet Levi Tafari was commissioned by The Canal & River Trust and The Poetry Society to work with community groups to create a poem celebrating the Sefton canal, a poem which has now been transformed into a poetry trail.
This resource, for teachers of primary-school children, contains a number of activities for different year groups. The activities draw on Levi’s poem and will enliven your walks along the trail. Use these teaching notes to help you guide the children through the activities. There are quick games to play outside while you’re on the walk, and longer tasks to work on back in the classroom.
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GCSE Unseen Poetry Practice: Remnants
Explore a new poem, 'Remnants', by poet Llŷr Gwyn Lewis, through a video interview with the poet and an accompanying worksheet.
We use the poem to practise some techniques around unseen poetry at GCSE. You'll learn about ways to approach analysing a poem you've never seen before, watch presenter Lewis Buxton interview Llŷr, and think about some of the literary devices used in the poem. You can also read a version of this poem in Welsh .
Watch the film
Download the worksheet
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This was put together by The Poetry Society as part of About Us, commissioned by UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK. Discover other About Us poetry resources here .
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Poetry By Heart: Pass the Parcel
In 2023, a team of poets ran poetry workshops in schools as part of a collaboration between Poetry By Heart and The Poetry Society. In the workshops, they supported students to learn a poem by heart and perform it. In this video resource, poet Oliver Lomax shares one of the exercises he used in the workshops. If you’re a teacher, try using this activity with your own class as part of your Poetry By Heart journey.
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Poetry By Heart: Using Actions
In 2023, a team of poets ran poetry workshops in schools as part of a collaboration between Poetry By Heart and The Poetry Society. In the workshops, they supported students to learn a poem by heart and perform it. In this video resource, poet Rakaya Fetuga shares one of the exercises she used in the workshops. If you’re a teacher, try using this activity with your own class as part of your Poetry By Heart journey.
Poetry By Heart: Finding Sparks
In 2023, a team of poets ran poetry workshops in schools as part of a collaboration between Poetry By Heart and The Poetry Society. In the workshops, they supported students to learn a poem by heart and perform it. In this video resource, poet Matt Abbott share some of the exercises he used in the workshops. If you’re a teacher, try using this activity with your own class as part of your Poetry By Heart journey.
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T is for Tree: Festive Nature Metaphors
This resource draws inspiration from Isabel Galleymore’s poem, ‘T is for Tree’, which captures how a Christmas tree draws the creatures of the forest together. It introduces learners to metaphor, exploring how to compare one image with another and the effect this creates. The resource inspires learners to create their own metaphors and poetic imagery.
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National Poetry Day 2023: Care Package (Refuge)
National Poetry Day 2023 is on Thursday 5 October. This year's theme is 'Refuge', so we've shared a poem by a recent Foyle Young Poet and created a resource for you to try.
Using Tara Tulshyan's prize-winning poem ' Care Package ', this KS3 resource explores the transition when moving from one home to another.
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Cuteness and the Environment
This resource links cuteness and the environment to inspire thinking on the environmental consequences of disposable plastic. It uses Isabel Galleymore's poem 'Examples Include Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On' to prompt writing with personification and metaphor. It includes curriculum links to science and citizenship.
Key Stages 3-4
Topics: metaphor, personification, voice, environment, plastic waste
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GCSE Unseen Poetry Practice: Lightly Is the Language
Explore a new poem, 'Lightly Is the Language', by poet Stephen Sexton, through a video interview with the poet and an accompanying worksheet.
We use the poem to practise some techniques around unseen poetry at GCSE. You'll learn about ways to approach analysing a poem you've never seen before, watch presenter Lewis Buxton interview Stephen, and think about some of the literary devices used in the poem.
Watch the film Download the worksheet
Download a screen-reader friendly version of the worksheet , including image descriptions
This was put together by The Poetry Society as part of About Us, commissioned by UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK. Discover other About Us poetry resources here .
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GCSE Unseen Poetry Practice: late lingua
Explore a new poem, 'late lingua', by poet Khairani Barokka ('Okka'), through a video interview with the poet and an accompanying worksheet.
We use the poem to practise some techniques around unseen poetry at GCSE. You'll learn about ways to approach analysing a poem you've never seen before, watch presenter Jess Murrain interview Okka, and think about some of the literary devices used in the poem.
Download the worksheet
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GCSE Unseen Poetry Practice: In Tree the Primal Ocean
Explore a new poem, 'In Tree the Primal Ocean', by poet Jason Allen-Paisant, through a video interview with the poet and an accompanying worksheet.
We use the poem to practise some techniques around unseen poetry at GCSE. You'll learn about ways to approach analysing a poem you've never seen before, watch presenter Jess Murrain interview Jason, and think about some of the literary devices used in the poem.
Download a screen-reader friendly version of the worksheet , including image descriptions.
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We Are Plankton
This resource brings together poetry and science to explore plankton. It includes discussion points and creative writing activities inspired by 'Plankton', a new poem by Jen Hadfield, commissioned for About Us. The poem includes words in Shetland dialect and photographs by Alfred Kern. A song of the poem, created by Jen Hadfield and Jenny Sturgeon, can be listened to here .
Key Stages 2-3
Topics: plankton, tiny organisms, Shetland dialect, sustainability and our future, wellbeing and resilience
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We Are Language
This resource brings together explores how language individualises us but connects us as humans. It includes discussion points and creative writing activities inspired by 'Together We Are Distant', a new poem by Dan Simpson, commissioned for About Us.
Key Stages 4 & 5
Topics: language, signs and signifiers, semiotics
Literary features: metaphor, enjambment
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We Are Birds
This resource brings together poetry and science to explore the relationship between humans and the environment, focussing particularly on birds. It includes discussion points and creative writing activities inspired by Aliyah Begum's 'Walking to the Train Station', a winning poem in the Young Poets Network Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis Challenge 2021, in partnership with People Need Nature.
Key Stages 2 & 3
Topics: birds, the environment, litter, sustainability
Literary features: imagery, anthropomorphism
We are Whale Song
This resource brings together poetry and science to explore the relationship between humans and whales. It focuses on themes of time, change, sustainability and the marine environment. It includes discussion points and creative writing activities inspired by Kyle Lovell's 'The Sunken Cathedral', a winning poem in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award.
Key Stages 3- 5
Topics: whales and whale song, faith, time, identity and diversity, sustainability and our future, wellbeing and resilience
Literary features: metaphor, refrains
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Cloud Chamber: Exploring Identity (Primary Schools)
A lesson plan for primary school teachers exploring identity. In this lesson you'll create a class contract, watch, read, and discuss a poem about identity, written by primary school pupils at a school in Scotland, and write your own identity poems using a stem poem. Created as part of The Poetry Society's network for poets and teachers, Cloud Chamber .
Key Stage 2
Topic: Identity
Format: Slide show with accompanying notes
Cloud Chamber: Exploring Identity (Secondary Schools)
A lesson plan for secondary school teachers exploring identity. In this lesson you'll create a class contract, watch, read, and discuss a poem about identity, written by sixteen-year-old Preesha Jain, and write your own identity poems using a free write exercise and a stem poem. Created for The Poetry Society's network for poets and teachers, Cloud Chamber .
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National Poetry Day 2022: Daisy Chains (The Environment)
National Poetry Day 2022 is on Thursday 6 October, and what better way to explore this year's theme of 'The Environment' than by reading a poem by a recent Foyle Young Poet, and writing new poems in response?
Using Daniel Wale's prize-winning poem 'Daisy Chains' , this KS2-3 resource asks you to think about how our environment can be transformed through description and detail, as the daisy is woven into a chain. How might we use setting as a metaphor for relationships?
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Rainbow Extinction: Protest Poems
Teacher Trailblazer Catherine Bruton explores how writing multi-coloured protest poems can change the world, using Foyle Young Poet Sarisha Mehta’s award-winning poem ‘Blue Extinction’. This PowerPoint lesson is easy to bring straight into the classroom. Students will learn about eco-poetry, form, and figurative language, exploring Sarisha's poem before writing their own.
For added inspiration, watch this video of Sarisha reading her poem.
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The Fourth King: A Tree's Journey
Inspired by Sinéad Morrissey's new poem 'The Fourth King', across two lessons KS2 pupils will learn about the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree and use personification, assonance and alliteration to speak from the perspective of an object or plant, imagining the journey it has been on. With opportunities to discuss big life changes, migration, journeys, recycling and the environment, children will be guided to write their own dramatic monologues after Sinéad Morrissey.
For added inspiration, watch an interview with Sinéad where she reads the poem and talks about the inspiration behind it; watch it brought to life by three children from St Saviour's Church of England Primary School; and if you can, visit the tree in Trafalgar Square until 6 January!
Illustrations by Marcus Walters.
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We, the Reef
This resource brings together poetry and science to explore the symbiotic relationship between algae and coral reefs. It includes a step-by-step guide to using improvisation to create your own poem, inspired by 'We, the Reef', a new poem by Caleb Parkin, Jane Hills, and Isla Keesje Davidson, commissioned for About Us.
Key Stages 2-4
Topics: symbiosis, zooxanthellae algae and coral reefs, climate change, collaboration,improvisation
Literary features: ecopoetry, voice, personification, creative writing
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We are Cellular
This resource brings together poetry and science to explore the history of the discovery of cells, and the way cells behave when they migrate. It includes discussion points and creative writing activities inspired by 'Micrographia, 1665', a new poem by Jack Cooper, commissioned for About Us.
Key Stages 3-5
Topics: cell biology, history of science - Robert Hooke
Literary features: metaphor, simile, punctuation, creative writing
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We are Cell Tissue
This resource brings together poetry and science to explore the topic of cell tissue, and specifically epithelium. It includes discussion points and creative writing activities inspired by Kitty Joyce's 'Epithelium', a winning poem in the Young Poets Network Human Cell Atlas Challenge 2021, in partnership with the Newcastle Centre for Literary Arts (NCLA) and One Cell At A Time, part of the Human Cell Atlas..
Topics: epithelium, cells and their functions, Surrealism
Literary features: word association, similes and metaphors, enjambment
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We are Mycelium
This resource brings together poetry and science to explore the relationship between trees and fungus/ mycelium. It focuses on the idea of symbiosis, and the role mycelium plays in the ecosystem. It includes discussion points and creative writing activities inspired by Brooke Nind's 'Mycelium Under the Canopy', a winning poem in the Young Poets Network Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis Challenge 2021, in partnership with People Need Nature.
Topics: mycelium, trees and mushrooms, symbiosis, climate change, ecosystem
Literary features: voice (first person), tenses, repetition (anaphora)
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We are Liquid Stars
This resource brings together poetry and science to explore the relationship between the human body and outer space. It focuses on the blood, and the idea that the chemicals in our body once came from stars. It includes discussion points and creative writing activities inspired by Celeste Herriotts's 'Blood', a winning poem from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Topics: human body, blood and the circulatory system, Earth and space
Literary features: voice (first and second person), personification, imagery, dynamic verbs
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We are Trees
This resource brings together poetry and science to explore the relationship between trees, names and identity. It focuses on Maple trees, and includes discussion points and creative writing activities inspired by Talulah Quinto's 'Maple', a winning poem from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.
Topics: trees, the ecosystem, biodiversity, identity, naming
Literary features: repetition (anaphora), tenses, symbolism, adjectives, juxtaposition
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National Poetry Day 2021: We Have A Choice
Celebrate National Poetry Day 2021 on 7 October by exploring Foyle Young Poet Theodora Shillito’s ‘The Story of Squiddly Diddly’, a poem about marine conservation and recycling, commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020 . This resource encourages KS2-3 students to think about how the choices we make affect the environment.
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Blackout history: Exploring Daniel Wale's poem 'Navajo Roads'
This lesson plan explores Daniel Wale's 'Navajo Roads', a winning poem from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
The activities can be used in a single session, or over a series of sessions.
In this resource, produced by Teacher Trailblazer Joanne Bowles, students are encouraged to think about history, power and conflict and interdisciplinarity. The resource also introduces students to erasure and found poetry as a form.
Joanne Bowles Teacher Trailblazer resource
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'The Fruit of the Spirit is Love (Galatians 5:22)'
This lesson plan explores Marvin Thompson's 'The Fruit of the Spirit is Love (Galatians 5:22)', which won first prize in the National Poetry Competition 2020.
In this resource, produced by Teacher Trailblazer Noor Wafa, students are encouraged to think about how we form an identity, and what it means to belong, in the context of race and cultural heritage. The resource also explores intertextuality, the villanelle form, and iambic pentameter.
Content warning: please note that the poem featured in this resource deals with the theme of racism and contains imagery of lynching.
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How to Belong: 'Brown Girl'
This lesson plan explores Indigo Mudbhary's 'Brown Girl', a winning poem from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
In this resource, produced by Teacher Trailblazer Fran Pridham, students are encouraged to think about identity and belonging, including the issue of race. The resource also introduces students to poetry in prose as a form.
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The Truth Exposed: 'Polaris'
This lesson plan explores Brigitta McKeever's ‘Polaris’, a winning poem from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
In this resource, produced by Teacher Trailblazer Stephanie Nobes, students are encouraged to think about the relationship between poetry and objects, the body, and the 'Evolution of Me'. They are also encouraged to analyse the poem with a close focus on features of language, and to write creatively using juxtaposition.
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Where talk is never cheap: 'Love Poem to Young Offenders Support Workers'
This lesson plan explores Libby Russell's ‘Love Poem to Young Offenders Support Workers’, a winning poem from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
In this resource, produced by Teacher Trailblazer Gareth Ellis, students are encouraged to think about why poets choose to write about love, how society values different types of knowledge, and the relationship between ‘here’ and ‘home’ in this poem. They are also encouraged to explore the sonnet form more widely.
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A thing of beauty: Rachel Piercey on Keats's life and works
As part of a season of activity celebrating 200 years of John Keats's legacy, poet Rachel Piercey explores the life and works of Keats through some of the paintings and objects in the collection of Keats House, London. This resource is aimed at KS4 and KS5.
Find out more about Keats200
Image: Keats Listening to the Nightingale on Hampstead Heath by Joseph Severn. Oil painting, 1849. Image courtesy of Keats House, City of London, K/PZ/05/015.
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Amy Davis on John Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’
As part of a season of activity celebrating 200 years of John Keats's legacy, Teacher Trailblazer Amy Davis looks closely at ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’. She offers ways to analyse the poet's techniques as well as exploring literary allusions, critical views, the poem's afterlife in art, and some prompts for creative responses. This resource is aimed at KS5.
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Poets for LGBT+ History Month and Always
A Level teacher and former Education Manager Nazmia Jamal offers over fifty suggestions of LGBT+ poets you could teach in February, which is LGBT+ History Month, and any time of the year. She shares questions for class discussion, writing prompts which are particularly inspired by the pandemic, and context for poems by Keith Jarrett, Mary Jean Chan, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Emily Dickinson and more.
Find more LGBT+ History Month resources here
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Look North More Often: a poetry pack for teachers inspired by the gift of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree
Since 2009, The Poetry Society has run Look North More Often, a unique education project celebrating the gift of the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square. The tree is given to the city of London from the city of Oslo every year since 1947, as thanks for Britain's support during the Second World War. Every year, we run workshops in primary schools which inspire a children's writer to craft a new poem celebrating the tree.
In 2012, we created an extensive pack of teaching resources for primary teachers, which we've recently updated. The pack offers a history of the tree and the project, and features Norwegian writers as well as Anglophone poets. Inside, you'll discover thoughtful and fun poetry writing exercises from such leading poets as Kevin Crossley-Holland, James Carter, Frances Presley, Hanne Bramness, Coral Rumble, Kit Wright and Philip Gross.
Find out more about the project
Discover more teaching resources inspired by the tree
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The Christmas Pine: The Tree Speaks Back!
In these activities for KS1 and KS2, children read Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson's new poem 'The Christmas Pine' and are invited to find out more about their favourite plant and write a dramatic monologue from its perspective. A great activity for the end of term, with links to science and learning about other cultures, this plan can be completed as a class, in groups or individually. Children can follow the poem frame or make up their own structure. It can be made to be very Christmassy - or not Christmassy at all!
For added inspiration, don't forget to read Julia's poem 'The Christmas Pine' , commissioned as part of The Poetry Society's annual Look North More Often programme, and performed by three children from St Mary of the Angels Primary School here .
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Poetry & Political Language
Taking inspiration from George Orwell's Animal Farm, this resource uses critical thinking and political language to create new poems called 'couplings' (after poets Karen McCarthy Woolf and Malika Booker). Created in partnership with The Orwell Foundation, as part of the 2020 Young Poets Network writing challenge.
Find more prompts on this theme
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Tell & See: National Poetry Day 2020 visionary poetry resource
Explore 'Diamonds' by Evelyn Byrne, a commended poem in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019 with the help of shiny fish, and celebrate this year's National Poetry Day, with the theme of Vision. Download
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Love Yourself
This lesson plan explores Cia Mangat’s ‘Love Poem to Myself’, a winning poem from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.
The activities stimulated by reading Cia’s poem should inspire students to think about themselves and look to a variety of love poems as a rich source for prompting poetry writing.
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Eco-poetry National Poetry Competition writing resource from Pascale Petit
Explore two National Poetry Competition prize-winning poems that address ecological themes with poet, teacher and former NPC judge Pascale Petit.
This resource was commissioned by The Poetry Society as part of the 2020 National Poetry Competition . We recommend this resource is used for KS5 and older.
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Hope on a Postcard
Inspired by Dr Martin Luther King’s visit to Newcastle University in 1967 to accept an honorary doctorate, poets John Challis and Sinéad Morrissey were invited to run poetry workshops in a male maximum security prison. They explored, with a group of self-selecting inmates, the three themes of King’s acceptance speech: poverty, racism and war. Techniques explored include writing a Golden Shovel, a ghazal, and experimenting with enjambement. We invite you to try these exercises yourself or as part of a school or other poetry group.
Read more about the prison workshops in Poetry News online.
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Sharing the Gift of Hope at Christmas
Poet Clare Pollard guides you through a brand new festive poetry lesson on the theme of hope. Pupils will learn about personification, writing letters, metaphors and similes, all while gearing up to writing a hopeful poem inspired by Clare Pollard's 2019 Christmas Tree poem 'The Gift' . Perfect for KS1 and KS2!
For added inspiration, don't forget to read Clare's poem 'The Gift' , commissioned as part of The Poetry Society's annual Look North More Often programme
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The Power of Memory and Association
Teacher Trailblazer Gagandeep Chaggar guides you through teaching 'God in 80s Movies', a Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018 winning poem by Em Power set in 80s films. Includes: close reading, writing your own film-inspired poem, and a note from the poet herself. Download
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6 Ways to Look at The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Discover this new KS3-4 teaching resource on the 2019 National Poetry Day theme of 'truth', written by Michael Donkor, a teacher, author and former Foyle Young Poet.
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Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market
In collaboration with the Watts Gallery and their exhibition Christina Rossetti: Vision and Verse we are exploring one of Christina Rossetti's most famous poems Goblin Market. This resource is designed for A Level students. Topics at a glance include sisterhood, consumerism, Marxism, feminism and literary critical theories. Written by Romanticism expert Dr Bethan Roberts with additional support from The Poetry Society and Watts Gallery.
Download the Christina Rossetti A Level Resource
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What is a Golden Shovel? with Peter Kahn
Poet and educator Peter Kahn has been teaching his students to write Golden Shovels for years. This “21st century sonnet” was created by Terrance Hayes when he used each word in Gwendolyn Brooks’ iconic poem ‘We Real Cool’ as part of his own poem.
Peter guides you through this exciting new form and encourages your students to create poems inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks, other poets, songwriters, film-makers and more!
Download the resource and enter your students into the Young Poets Network challenge by 31 March 2019 to win poetry prizes.
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Breaking the code with Bletchley Park
Could your students be code-breakers? This lesson plan by Sian Hughes explores nursery rhymes, nonsense verse and codes through the lens of Bletchley Park and the work that went on there.
Download the resource and find more code-breaking poetry workshops on Young Poets Network .
Read winning poems inspired by Bletchley Park written by young people here !
Illustrations by Alex Leigh Whitworth, courtesy of Bletchley Park Trust.
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Creating Voices
This lesson plan by Teacher Trailblazer Lyndsey Chand takes an in-depth look at Enshia Li’s ‘unwritten letter from my great-grandmother to my great-grandfather, 1930’, a winning poem in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017. This resource contains activities for KS4/5 to take place over the course of several lessons and develops students’ skills and confidence when dealing with unseen poetry as well as writing their own poems about their own family history.
Download this teaching resource
For more activities around prose poems, see Enshia Li’s Young Poets Network challenge
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A Change in Circumstance
This lesson plan is on the theme of change and was written for National Poetry Day 2018 on Thursday 4 October. It looks at Imogen Catsaras’ ‘Dawn in Dartmouth’, a commended poem in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.
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Celebrations: a Foyle Young Poets resource
This lesson plan by Teacher Trailblazer Fran Pridham looks at Lucy Thynne's ‘the parents anniversary', a winning poem in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.
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Poetry manifestos: End Hunger UK
With a free PowerPoint presentation by End Hunger UK and accompanying audio clip , Fran Pridham helps students to respond to food poverty in the UK through poetry. She uses Foyle Young Poet Phoebe Stuckes’ poem ‘Daughters’ as a way into writing manifestos against injustice. Enter your pupils’ work into the Young Poets Network challenge to win free workshops and inclusion on the nationwide End Hunger UK touring exhibition (closing 6 May 2018). Download teaching resource.
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Hands around the Christmas Tree
Children's poet and storyteller A.F. Harrold explores the theme of friendship through poetry, focussing on the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, given by the city of Oslo as a symbol of thanks and friendship each year. You can use A.F. Harrold's two exercises and poem structure to create your own Christmas Tree poem and think about friendship at this festive time. This is a great Christmas activity for all settings, from schools and community groups to home.
For added inspiration, read A.F. Harrold's own poem 'The Friendship Tree' , commissioned as part of The Poetry Society's annual Look North More Often programme
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Write Yourself an Escape Plan
Explore the National Poetry Day 2017 theme of 'Freedom' with this resource for Key Stages 1-2. After reading Brian Bilston's poem 'The Great Escape', create imaginative ways of escaping from particular places.
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Climate Change and Adventures in Writing
Helen Mort uses Romantic poetry as a springboard into exploring climate change and poetic landscapes, discussing images and key texts to build towards the final ‘challenge’: a self-portrait poem.
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Picture this
John Glenday discusses how using images – prints, portraits, photographs, even objects – can be a wonderfully effective source of inspiration for writing poems. At a glance: art, creating characters, quick exercises.
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Making poetry with my mother
This lesson plan by Teacher Trailblazer Kate Brackley looks at Letitia Chan’s ‘Making Glutinous Dumplings with My Mother’, a winning poem in theFoyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
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Does this smell like a good poem?
This lesson plan by Teacher Trailblazer Joanne Bowles involves exploring some of the ideas in Cyrus Larcombe-Moore’s poem ‘my ghost’ (see page 8 of this resource), one of the winning poems in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
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‘Dulce et Decorum est’ and intertextuality in Wilfred Owen
Peter Olive & Xavier Murray-Pollock use Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ as a springboard for discussion about the role and implications of allusion in poetry, also involving a discussion of Roman poet Horace's Odes .
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Writing a monologue
Sue Dymoke's activity develops pupils writing of character following the reading of Carol Ann Duffy's poetry. At a glance: Carol Ann Duffy, monologues, creating characters, drama, performance.
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The Christmas Tree's Secret
Poet Julia Copus explores depicting Christmastime in poetry, focussing on the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree. You can use Julia's ideas to produce your very own poems in celebration of your Christmas trees, whether they are in your school, the local town centre or in your living room.
For added inspiration, read Julia's poem 'The Christmas Tree's Secret' , commissioned as part of The Poetry Society's annual Look North More Often programme
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Postcard Poems
Explore the National Poetry Day 2016 theme of 'Messages' with this resource for primary schools. Using Diana Brodie's poem 'Gap Year Letter from a Five-Toed Sloth', create strange and wonderful postcards from imaginary characters and exotic locations.
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Honour and belief: The Battle of Agincourt
Alf Wilkinson takes the lives of ordinary soldier as inspiration for an exploration the detail of a famous battle and the world it was fought in. This resource was created to accompany the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition. At a glance: history, journeys, letter poems, voice.
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Power and representation: The Battle of Agincourt in Shakespeare's Henry V
Richard O'Brien explores one of the most famous retellings of this landmark battle. This resource has been created to accompany the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition. At a glance: Shakespeare, Henry V, representation, voice.
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Poetry in History: The Battle of Agincourt
Steve Ely challenges young people to explore exactly how and why we commemorate conflict. This resourcewas created to accompany the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition. At a glance: war poetry, memory, history
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The Battle of Agincourt: Dreaming history
John Lindley challenges young people to explore the history and legacy of an extraordinary conflict. It was created to accompany the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition. At a glance: the Battle of Agincourt, imagery, sensory language, descriptive writing.
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Page Fright: Hollie McNish and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
This resource looks at the work of two poets, Hollie McNish and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It supports the filmed performances available at poetrysociety.org.uk/pagefright. Using modern spoken word to explore historical poems, Page Fright encourages students to explore and compare poems, then create their own responses.
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Page Fright: Dizraeli and Percy Bysshe Shelley
This Page Fright resource looks at the work of two poets: Dizraeli and Percy Bysshe Shelley. It is designed to support the filmed performances available at poetrysociety.org.uk/pagefright Using modern spoken word to explore historical poems, Page Fright encourages students to explore and compare their work, then create their own poetic responses.
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Yeats: An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Jane Anderson explores a poem Yeats wrote in response to the death of a friend’s son during the First World War, as well as the poet's attitude to writing about war. At a glance: W.B. Yeats, war poetry, loss, literary heritage.
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Ways of looking
Teacher Trailblazer Ben Bransfield explores ways of writing unusual list poems, inspired by ‘6 Ways to Look at The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, a commended Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award winner 2015. At a glance: list poems, structure, metaphor.
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'The Big Push' - modern WWI poetry
Poet John Glenday explores his poem 'The Big Push' and guides through creating their own First World War poems. At a glance: First World War poetry, film, visual art, contemporary responses the conflict.
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How to bake a poet
Teacher Trailblazer Ben Bransfield explores Sophia Carney's poem ‘How to be a patriot’. Sophia is onee of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015. At a glance: patriotism, politics, imagery, structure with your class.
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Nature and wellbeing in poetry
This resource provides the basis for an understanding of nature and wellbeing in poetry, and encourages pupils to use their senses to interpret the world around them. At a glance: nature poetry, sensory imagery, personification, metaphor, haiku.
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W.B. Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Jane Anderson explores one of W.B. Yeats best-loved poems, focussing on his use of sound and rhythm. At a glance: descriptive language, imagery, sound, performance.
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Page Fright: Benjamin Zephaniah and Dylan Thomas
This Page Fright resource looks at the work of two poets: Benjamin Zephaniah and Dylan Thomas. It supports the filmed performances available at poetrysociety.org.uk/pagefright. Using modern spoken word to explore historical poems, Page Fright encourages students to explore and compare poems, then create their own responses.
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Page Fright: Joelle Taylor and Wilfred Owen
This resource looks at the work of two poets, Joelle Taylor and Wilfred Owen. It is designed to support the filmed performances available at poetrysociety.org.uk/pagefright Using modern spoken word to explore historical poems, Page Fright encourages students to explore and compare their work, then create their own poetic responses.
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The Art of Translation: Making New Versions of Mexican Poems
Don Cellini introduces students to the process of translation, and shows them how to translate themselves using poems by Pedro Serrano. At a glance: translation, descriptive language, imagery, sound.
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Foyle Lesson Plan: Poetry, mythology and fairy tales
Katherine Whittington explores the reinvention of classic myths and legends in poetry using Foyle winner Isla Anderson's poem about Prometheus. At a glance: mythology, fairy tales, rhyme, structure, writing in another voice.
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Foyle Lesson Plan: A Feast of Words
Using a poem from Sala Fadelallah, Ramnika Sharma explores found objects and lines to inspire poetry writing through group and pair work. At a glance: poetic devices, unseen poem, speaking and listening, skills, descriptive language and cultural traditions.
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Writing a Christmas Tree Poem
Liz Lochhead inspires pupils to write a Christmas Tree poem, hanging the tree with real or imagined decorations which engage the senses. At a glance: friends and family, the senses, syllables.
For added inspiration, read Liz's poem 'How I'll Decorate My Tree' , commissioned as part of The Poetry Society's annual Look North More Often programme
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WWI Poetry and the Home Front (Secondary Level)
Using Marian Allen's First World War poem 'The Wind on the Downs', and Linda Hughes' new animation, we explore the poetry of those people left at home during the First World War.
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WWI Poetry and the Home Front (Primary Level)
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National Poetry Day 2014 secondary resource
M is for… Mix it up. This activity helps students think about the structure and order of a poem, and the different information that can be revealed by mixing it up.
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National Poetry Day 2014 primary resource
R is for… Reading out loud. Experiment with reading poems out loud in fun and different ways to help children build confidence reading poetry out loud.
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War poetry and WW2 poetry
This resource explores war poetry, Second World War poetry and longer poems, and includes an analysis of Timothy Corsellis' poem 'Dawn After the Raid'. This resource supports Young Poets Network's annual Timothy Corsellis Prize.
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Eccentricity and Sound - Edith Sitwell
Jane Anderson uses two poems by Edith Sitwell to offer ways into looking at her fascinating, innovative style, and gives suggestions for creative responses. At a glance: reading, writing, literacy, confidence, sound.
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Clothes that escaped the Great War
Poet and teacher Patricia McCarthy takes us through her National Poetry Competition-winning poem 'Clothes that escaped the Great War'. This resource explores a modern poet's take on the First World War, analysing the poem, and leading to an opportunity for your students to write their own responses.
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Teaching the Reading of Poetry
Mandy Coe provides tips and ideas for how to enthuse your class about reading poetry. At a glance: reading, writing, literacy, confidence, sound.
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Short Poems are Scary!
Using a poem by Carol Ann Duffy, David Harmer encourages students to create Nonsense Monsters with inanimate objects and shape them into poems. At a glance: imagination, haiku and tankas, cinquains, kennings.
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Roger Stevens uses his own poem and one by Jan Dean to explain how to avoid 'Clunky Last Line Syndrome' when writing rhyming verses. At a glance: alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme.
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My Family and Other Pests...
Using a poem by Jackie Kay, David Harmer encourages students to use stories about their friends and family as inspiration for their poems. At a glance: people and families, contrasts, personal writing, haiku.
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Animal Menagerie
Roger Stevens encourages pupils to create animal poems using metaphors, similes, description, and alliteration to fill Mr. Magoo's Magical Zoo. Part of our Poetry Train resource pack.
Magical Powers
David Harmer uses his poem 'Where The Fairies Are' to look at how students can incorporate magical creatures into their poems. Part of our Poetry Train resource pack. At a glance: rhyme, imagery, imagination, simile.
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Anyone Seen My Dragon?
Roger Stevens uses a James Carter poem to look at creating animal poetry with pupils. At a glance: rhyme, writing a chorus, reading together, animal poems. Part of our Poetry Train resource pack.
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Poetry Train
David Harmer and Roger Stevens use a collection of activities, poems, and advice for teaching poetry in primary schools. The two share proven approaches based on poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, David Harmer, and Roger Stevens.
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War Horse and WWI Poetry
A resource designed to support you in using the National Theatre’s production of War Horse as a way into poetry of the First World War. Including poems by Edward Thomas and Rupert Brooke. At a glance: war poetry, nature, rhythm, drama, comparing texts.
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Foyle Lesson Plan: Poems inspired by Art
Ashley Smith uses a Foyle Young Poets winning poem to show students the relationship between a poem and a piece of art which inspired it. At a glance: art, description, narrative, perspective, imagery, the senses.
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Foyle Lesson Plan: Poetry as call to arms
Ashley Smith uses a feminist themed poem by Phoebe Stuckes to teach repetition, rhetoric, and 'call to arms' poems. At a glance: feminism, imperative mood, repetition for effect, emotive language, literary tradition.
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Vanishing Acts: Poetry and Climate Change
This resource uses poetry to tackle the issues around climate change, and encourages students to bring personal and universal issues together in a way that is detailed and original.
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Poetry Review 103:2, Summer 2013, teachers' notes
Teachers' notes explore an issue of the Poetry Review and links between the contemporary poems and canonical texts. At a glance: translation; literary heritage, lexicography and imagery.
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Poetry Review 103:1, Spring 2013, teachers' notes
These teachers' notes explore the Spring 2013 edition of Poetry Review. At a glance: literary heritage; language, dialect and place, poetic forms, metaphor, personification and sound, identity.
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Travelling with Edward Lear
This resource uses the poetry of Edward Lear to explore themes such as word comprehension, nonsense poems, rhythm and rhyme in poetry, as well as geography, travel and displacement. At a glance: Rhythm, rhyme, imagery, language play, comprehension, geography.
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Rhythm and Pace in War Poetry
Using poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Wilfred Owen, Roshan Doug aims to familiarise students with the concepts of structure and movement in a poem. At a glance: rhythm, iamibic pentameter, war poetry, structure, syllables.
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Identity and Performance Poetry
The Poetry Society uses a poem by Samilah Naira to look at issues of identity and allows students to create their own performance pieces. At a glance: identity, society, rhyme, metaphor, performance.
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Evaporations - exploring water and poetry
The Poetry Society uses a film-poem by Alice Oswald and Chana Dubinski to explore different poetic devices through different states of water and encourages students to create water themed poems. At a glance: water, personification, observation, the senses, the unfamiliar.
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Wide open: teaching grammar with poetry
Rachel Rooney uses her poem 'Wide Open' to support the teaching of grammar terminology and concepts. At a glance: grammar, using adverbs, punctuation, group poems.
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Views of the sea
Malika Booker introduces activities to increase pupils' familiarity with poemsfrom other cultures, using the theme of water. At a glance: the sea, water, poems from other cultures, rhyme, onomatopoeia.
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The art of remembering by heart
Steve Tasane encourages learning poetry by heart as tool for building confidence, speaking and listenig skills, and enjoyment of poetry. At a glance: learning by heart, performance, quick exercise, sound, storytelling.
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How do poets use language
Joseph Coelho uses his poem to help students understand how detailed use of language can open up new meanings and impact the poem. At a glance: literary heritage poets, comparing texts, comprehension, figurative texts, friends and family.
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How to make a poem
Coral Rumble guides students step by step how to write a poem for more reluctant writers. At a glance: confidence, playing with language, literacy, structure, reluctant writers.
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Great title randomiser
Poet Philip Gross teaches students to explore creating poetry titles as a group. At a glance: group poems, juxtaposition, using nouns, using adjectives, sound.
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Favourite things
Activities using Barry Turrell's poem 'Lauren' to support pupils in writing their own poems about their favourite things. At a glance: feelings and emotion, friends and family, playing with language, memory, patterns
A journey through the senses
Pupils are encouraged to use their senses and develop an original approach to their writing. At a glance: the senses, redrafting, language play, feelings and emotion, patterns.
A conceit poem
Pupils can us Pat Leighton's poem to develop their writing by thinking more deeply about images. At a glance: simile and metaphor, imgery, conceit poems, sound, group poems.
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Mandy Coe uses her poem 'Tiny' activity to encourage pupils to explore the idea of perspective in their writing. At a glance: the senses, structure, letter poems, experience, scale, perspective.
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The button jar
Roz Goddard offers writing activities to support pupils in creating characters and developing dialogues. At a glance: creating characters, monologues, dialogues, writing in another voice, drama.
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Postcards home
Paul Hyland uses postcards as way to fire pupils' imaginations about important places, special people and strong feelings. At a glance: letter poems, short poems, imagery, writing in another voice, poetry of place.
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Poetry passport
Pauline Stewart enables children to create poems that imagine themselves in another life. At a glance: experience, identity, friends & family, memory, short poems.
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Messages from the heart
Chrissie Gittins uses her poem to explain to students the different between fantasy and lying in writing. At a glance: Ancient Egyptians, history, experience, list poems, redrafting.
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Making monsters
Using his own poem, Gavin Stewart helps pupils develop original monster characters. At a glance: creating characters, syllables, humorous verse, creating new words, simile and metaphor.
Inspiring creativity
Anjum Malik's workshop uses music to turn writing into a physcial activity by helping students relax so their minds can create thoughts and ideas. At a glance: music, memory, drama, group poems, performance.
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Cat in the window
Poet Brian Morse uses his poem to help students write about place using a cat as the explorer. At a glance: poetry of place, using verbs, using adjectives, personification, list poems.
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Tackling climate change
Created in partnership with climate change organisation Cape Farewell Karen McCarthy Woolf uses Elizabeth Bishop's poem to help students think and write about what is important to them. At a glance: nature, loss, climate change, list poems, poetic forms.
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Poetry as eulogy
Ashley Smith uses a poem by Phoebe Boswall to inspire writing a poetic eulogy. At a glance: memory, the sense, friends and family, alliteration, literary heritage poets.
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Writing a personification list poem
This activity uses Flora de Falbe's poem 'Five things about the lake' and Sylvia Plath's 'Mirror' as stimulus for writing a list poem personifying an inanimate object. At a glance: personification, Sylvia Plath, comparing texts, prose poems, list poems.
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Poetry and the mind
In response to a Foyle winning poem by Matthew Broomfield, Ashley Smith explores a troubled mind written as an inner monologue. At a glance: mental health, music, experience, poetic forms.
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Bright Star by John Keats
Activities to support the teaching of John Keats' sonnet'Bright Star'.At a glance: John Keats, sonnets, feelings and emotion, love poetry, experience.
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Cosmic Disco
Using her own poem about the stars and the universe, Grace Nichols inspires students to write both creatively and scientifically. At a glance: science, Grace Nichols, dance, space, personification.
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The Jumblies
Activities to support the teaching of Edward Lear poetry, with a particular focus on 'The Jumblies'. At a glance: Edward Lear, celebrating difference, identity, humorous verse, group poems.
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Free writing
Dorothea Smartt uses her own poem to encourage students to write with fluency and without self-censoring. At a glance: free writing, experience, redrafting, iambic pentameter, confidence.
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Intensive writing
Peter Samson helps pupils practice observational writing by letting details speak for themselves. At a glance: art, imagery, poetry of place, quick exercise, using adjectives.
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Weather the weather
Dave Reeves explores using personification to describe the weather. At a glance: using verbs, feelings and emotion, personification, simile and metaphor, nature.
A way into metaphor
Pupils will work through several stages to develop imagery that will bring their poems to life. At a glance: using adjectives, simile and metaphor, nature imagery, conceit poems.
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Poetry from portraits
Cheryl Martin uses visual stimuli as the basis for writing poems. At a glance: art, writing in another voice, history, celebrating difference, the senses.
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Simile and metaphor
Stephen Knight uses a poem written by his class to teach simile and metaphor. At a glance: simile and metaphor, the sea, conceit poems, redrafting, nature.
Split definitions
Mahendra Solanki helps pupils look at familiar objects in a new way. At a glance: confidence, reluctant writers, using adjectives, group poems, playing with language.
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Physical poetry
John Siddique introduces writing about physical memories using poems of his own and some by Ted Hughes. At a glance: the body, memory, dance, drama, Ted Hughes.
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Developing individual voice
An activity to help students write as a group and transition into writing individually. At a glance: simile and metaphor, structure, playing with language, riddles, group poems.
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Imaginary words
Eva Salzman helps students experiment with imaginary words used in poems such as Lewis Carroll's 'The Jabberwocky' to see how language changes and develops. At a glance: humorous verse, sound, alliteration, rhythm, rhyme.
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Mario Petrucci encourages writers to edit and redraft their work. At a glance: short poems, redrafting, riddles, the senses, reluctant writers.
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KS2 SATs poem reading practice – Throwing a Tree
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This useful KS2 poetry resource features reading practice questions to support children in building poetry analysis and reading skills in preparation for the SATs.
What's included?
- A printable sample SATs reading paper which includes an extract of the poem 'Throwing a Tree' by Thomas Hardy
- Practice questions for SATs reading paper 2 based on the extract
- An answer paper with mark scheme.
How are these KS2 SATs poem reading practice questions useful?
These practice questions offer students a chance to broaden and consolidate their reading paper skills, helping them become familiar with question types, wording, and textual analysis that they'll encounter in the exam.
How to use this SATs poetry resource for KS2?
Teachers can utilise this resource in the classroom for practice before the SATs. It can also be assigned as homework or used for revision to reinforce learning.
Looking for more like this?
If you find this resource helpful and need more of the same, do try our KS2 English reading comprehension section for additional resources.
A sample extract from the resource:
- ‘Bearing two axes with heavy heads …’
Can you explain what the word ‘bearing’ means?
- ‘The two executioners stalk along over the knolls …’
Why has the poet chosen the word ‘executioners’ to describe the men? Think about what the men are about to do.
- Look at the verse beginning: ‘Jackets doffed …’
Find and copy a group of words that means the same as ‘a large cut’.
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Low ks3/High ability ks2 poetry worksheets
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English KS2- Using metaphors in poetry. Metaphors are a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. This lesson focuses on using metaphors in poetry. It comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and the related lesson plan, activity sheet and example poems.
Sticking with a seasonal theme, this "Twas the Night Before Christmas' festive writing and poetry resources pack is perfect for Lower KS2. So keep pupils in Year 3 and year 4 engaged and motivated to write right up until Christmas using our writing pack based on the classic poem 'Twas the Night before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore.
In this lesson you'll create a class contract, watch, read, and discuss a poem about identity, written by primary school pupils at a school in Scotland, and write your own identity poems using a stem poem. Created as part of The Poetry Society's network for poets and teachers, Cloud Chamber. Key Stage 2.
This useful KS2 poetry resource features reading practice questions to support children in building poetry analysis and reading skills in preparation for the SATs. What's included? An answer paper with mark scheme. How are these KS2 SATs poem reading practice questions useful? These practice questions offer students a chance to broaden and ...
Learn to write poems in a variety of styles with this great range of primary school poetry resources for Key Stage 2 (Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6) students. These helpful resources on poetry include worksheets, planning materials, PowerPoints and more. Encourage children to read and write poems with figurative language (KS2) using these ...
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pub, 245 KB. An A5 sized booklet for easy use with planners with three homework tasks based on the study of poetry. Tasks are project-based and include research, creative making and written tasks. Booklet also contains key words for a poetry unit and space for learners to record any new vocabulary they learn. Creative Commons "Sharealike".
Introducing and exploring poetry. The activities in the resource will help you introduce poetry to P4-7 pupils - looking at reading, analysing, writing and performing poetry. At the bottom of this page you will find a video of Joseph Coelho reading the poem May from his collection A Year of Nature Poems. You could use many of the activities ...
Poetry is amazing for KS2 children's creativity and confidence. What's more, is that curriculum guidelines state that in KS2, pupils should: Listen to and discuss a wide range of texts, including, poetry. Prepare poems to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action.
I attach a poetry reading comprehension including the answer sheet (which is separate to the questions) for the children to complete as homework this week. Kind regards. Mrs Hudson. T2-E-1669-Year-6-Reading-Assessment-Poetry-Answer-Booklet. PDF File. T2-E-1669-Year-6-Reading-Assessment-Poetry-Marking-Scheme.
92 Top "Poetry Homework" Teaching Resources curated for you. Complete the Metaphor or Simile 45 reviews. Finish the Metaphors and Similes worksheet 25 reviews. Poetry Response Worksheet 8 reviews. KS2 Woodland Poetry Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity 4 reviews. Complete the Poem Activity 14 reviews.
Low ks3/High ability ks2 poetry worksheets. Subject: English. Age range: 7-11. Resource type: Worksheet/Activity. supreme_316. 4.14 194 reviews. Last updated ... Perfect. Thank you very much. I have some low ability KS3 students who hate poetry so I am more optimistic than normal, armed with your resources. Thanks. Empty reply does not make any ...