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

  • Easter Things Poems

    Easter Things Poems

    Practise selecting and using special vocabulary words to compose poems that play with language when describing things that represent Easter celebrations

  • 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

  • Addition One More

    Addition One More

    Identify and record the matching addition sums that are one more than different numbers to twenty

  • Family Dictionary

    Family Dictionary

    Read and write dictionary entries to define topic and vocabulary words about types of food that families could buy when going shopping

  • Easter Things Poems

    Easter Things Poems

    Practise selecting and using special vocabulary words to compose poems that play with language when describing things that represent Easter celebrations

  • Trains

    Trains

    Explore and illustrate how travel has changed since the past through the invention and development of trains from steam to electric technologies