Poetry Teaching Resources

Discover lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Year Two in Key Stage One to teach about writing poetry on different themes and topics

  • Animal Poems

    Animal Poems

    Identify and collect different vocabulary words to use when composing poems about the appearance, movements and sounds made by a range of animals

  • Food and Drink

    Food and Drink

    Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals

  • Journeys Poems

    Journeys Poems

    Practise selecting powerful vocabulary words to use in poems that can describe some of the journeys made by families using different types of transport

  • Special Places Poems

    Special Places Poems

    Practise composing and presenting poems using descriptive vocabulary to illustrate some of the special places that can be found in the world

  • Sporting Poems

    Sporting Poems

    Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games

  • Sporting Poems

    Sporting Poems

    Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games

  • Food and Drink

    Food and Drink

    Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals

  • Sea Animals

    Sea Animals

    Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach

  • Number Bonds to Twenty

    Number Bonds to Twenty

    Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty