National Poetry Day planning picks

Featuring great poems around this year s theme, Refuge, our free resources are full of ways to get students reading, discussing, performing, and writing no matter their confidence level. They re ready to go as worksheets, or you can use them as prompts and thought starters for your class ...

Featuring great poems around this year s theme, Refuge, our free resources are full of ways to get students reading, discussing, performing, and writing no matter their confidence level. They re ready to go as worksheets, or you can use them as prompts and thought starters for your class ...

Poetry Train is a teachers pack of activities, poems and advice for teaching poetry in primary schools. David Harmer and Roger Stevens share proven approaches for use in the classroom, based on brilliant poems by top poets such as Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay.

This worksheet is based on the funny rhyming poem, 'Boris the Spider' written by Damian Harvey and illustrated by Daniel Postgate, in the Leapfrog Rhyme Time series. There is a sample spread from the book and two activities. The first asks children to fill in the missing rhyming words and the second...

'Who lives here?' PowerPoint introduces a 'conversation' poem about the creatures and habitat of the rainforest. It provides a structured step by step lesson to support composition. It also allows reinforcement of parts of speech particularly verbs and prepositions. Extended poetry task also p...

This is a lovely way to revise Phase 5 and have a go at reading alien words ready for the Phonics Screening Check. The booklet includes a little poem to revise each Phase 5 sound, the children then need to look closely at the poem to find the words that have that sound in, as well as read the word...

English poetry themed escape room. Students recap structure, language, imagery, language techniques, vocabulary and other key skills and knowledge around English Literature through the stimulus of poetry. Perfect for the end of term or end of unit, students work in groups to solve a range of myster...

A new type of poetry that involves using newspapers to create poems. The poem is inside the text; pupils must find it. Suitable for KS2, KS3 and KS4 ***You will need newspapers and marker pens***

This 'Unseen Poetry' worksheet is designed to help students to begin to unpick a poem from the first reading. The worksheet can be used with ANY poem! The questions have been designed to help students to think about the **meaning, author's intentions and their personal response**. Although th...

These five sheets explore different forms of poetry and how to write them: Write a Sonnet, Write a Ballad, Write a Visual Poem, Write a Haiku, Write a Found Poem. The sheets include information about form and language, examples, further reading and a differentiated task.