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A POEM A TERM

Writing Poems
&
The National Literacy Strategy

a guide for teachers: Year One - Year Six

by Roger Stevens

""Poetry should be approached with a sense of fun,
excitement and discovery."
- Roger Stevens

Table of Contents

KEY STAGE ONE

Years One and Two

Adapting Nursery Rhymes

Counting rhymes

Tongue Twisters

Nonsense Poems

KEY STAGE TWO

Year Three, Term One

Year 3 Term 1 - Shape poems

Year 3 Term 3 - Riddles

Year 4 Term 1 - School Poems

Year 4 Term 2 - Simile

Year 4 Term 3 - Poem For Sale

Year 5 Term 1 - Writing Metaphors

Year 5 Term 2 - The Sonnet

Year 5 Term 3 - Performance poem

Year 6 Term 1 - The Animal Inside

Year 6 Term 2 - Lost and Found

Year 6 Term 3 - Haiku Sequence