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

  • Amazing Animals

    Amazing Animals

    Select and use special vocabulary words to use when composing poems with different forms to describe a range of animals

  • Conflict Poetry

    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

  • Easter Eggs

    Easter Eggs

    Select and use special descriptive vocabulary words to create a shape poem describing different types of eggs given for Easter

  • Easter Story Poems

    Easter Story Poems

    Practise composing and publishing different types of poems that use line structures and vocabulary to illustrate scenes in the Easter story

  • Four Seasons

    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

  • Relationships

    Relationships

    Compose a selection of different types of poems using figurative language and poetry styles to illustrate relationships between friends and family members

  • Spooky Night

    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

  • Sports Poems

    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

  • Sports Rap

    Sports Rap

    Select vocabulary and rhythm structures to compose and perform rap poems describing actions and events connected to different Olympic sports

  • Weather Changes

    Weather Changes

    Practise composing and presenting different types of poems to illustrate how the weather can make changes to the world

  • Rounding Hundreds

    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

  • Rounding Tens

    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

  • Classic Animal Stories

    Classic Animal Stories

    Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters

  • Cities, Towns and Villages

    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