These Christmas card poems (featured in the poetry book Christmas Poems Chosen by Paul Cookson– Macmillan) are a great way to inspire your children to write and perform at this busy time of year and the verses
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Hello! Asking the children in your class to write a poem using rhythm and rhyme with little preparation and inspiration can often yield nonsensical and unsatisfying results. However the following poem by Charles Thomson demonstrates a
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Finding ideas to inspire the reluctant writers in our classes can be very difficult- poetry writing for some children can seem especially onerous! I have used the following poetry writing idea How To Make a Poem (Blue
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Sometimes poetry can be used to get to the point of a literacy lesson a lot quicker than when using regular prose. I wrote the attached poem ‘Mrs Jardine’ (below) while keeping the idea of teaching
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! Mesostic Poems- What are they? Everybody has heard of acrostic poems where a word runs down vertically at the beginning
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! Poetry In The New Curriculum- Ian Bland Children’s Poet and Performer Before the new curriculum poetry it seems had played
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! Come Quick! There’s a Dragon In The Garden! Some time ago I posted a piece on my blog about poems
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! Learning and reciting poems has become a central part of literacy in the new curriculum. It is now expected that
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! As a professional children’s poet I have worked with literally thousands of schools, libraries and festivals over the last fourteen
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Click here to download a free poetry ebook for your primary class and get your children performing! Does it have to rhyme? How many times do we hear children ask this question? Young writers can become a
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Lots of fun ideas to get your children writing their own exciting poetry – perfect for upper KS1 and KS2
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