Poetry Writing Teaching Resources

Discover lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in literacy for the Foundation Stage to teach about writing poems on different themes and topics

  • Nursery Rhymes

    Nursery Rhymes

    Identify and describe the sequence of events and characters that feature in a range of different narrative poems with rhymes

  • Owl and the Pussycat

    Owl and the Pussycat

    Explore and role-play the sequence of events and language used in a traditional poem and investigate and spell cvc words with the same initial sounds

  • Story Sentences

    Story Sentences

    Practise writing example sentences to describe some of the different events and settings that feature in the traditional story poem of the Owl and the Pussycat

  • Story Map

    Story Map

    Design and produce a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story to show the sequence of events and locations that feature in the narrative

  • Story Journeys

    Story Journeys

    Suggest, describe and record some of the alternative events that might occur in a story based on the narrative sequence of a traditional tale