Poetry Teaching Resources
Discover schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Key Stage Two to teach about writing poetry on different themes and ideas
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Amazing Animals
Select and use special vocabulary words to use when composing poems with different forms to describe a range of animals
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Conflict Poetry
Explore how different poets use figurative language in poetry to illustrate and compare themes and ideas about conflict to other objects and emotions
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Easter Eggs
Select and use special descriptive vocabulary words to create a shape poem describing different types of eggs given for Easter
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Easter Story Poems
Practise composing and publishing different types of poems that use line structures and vocabulary to illustrate scenes in the Easter story
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Four Seasons
Explain and model how to select and manipulate descriptive vocabulary to use when composing different types of poems about each season of the year
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Relationships
Compose a selection of different types of poems using figurative language and poetry styles to illustrate relationships between friends and family members
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Spooky Night
Select and use descriptive language in poetry to describe spooky sights and shadows that might be seen in a bedroom at night during Halloween
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Sports Poems
Explain and model how to compose and present poems using special line structures and rhyming patterns to illustrate actions and themes connected to different sports
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Sports Rap
Select vocabulary and rhythm structures to compose and perform rap poems describing actions and events connected to different Olympic sports
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Weather Changes
Practise composing and presenting different types of poems to illustrate how the weather can make changes to the world
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Rounding Hundreds
Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Rounding Tens
Identify and record how to round some different numbers to the nearest ten based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Classic Animal Stories
Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters
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Cities, Towns and Villages
Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition