Poetry

Children all know some poetry as they learn nursery rhymes as infants. They love rhyme and rhythm so reading poems is always popular. It is a good idea to include boy orientated poems such as limericks and acrostic name poems.

Writing poetry is fun and can be approached by using sounds and pictures. Links to most of the papers below will be active only if you are logged in as a subscriber to Parents in Touch (i.e. not if you are a guest or registered user).

Rhymes for mother and baby	Rhymes to teach listening	My favourite people poems	Nursery rhymes illus. by Kate Greenaway Free Download
Action rhymes for 4 year olds	Baby rhymes	Counting rhymes for three year olds	Creature rhymes for three year olds
Nursery rhyme poster	Our very own Nursery rhymes	Rhyme ideas for KS1	Monster poems
Alliteration shape poem	Rhyme time	Autumn action rhymes	Winter poems

Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. It has three sentences each containing 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively.

Haiku	Haiku on movement	Haiku on flowers
Haiku poetry writing	Poems about noise	Jabberwocky	Autumn poems
Poetry ideas using the Qur'an Free Download	The Pied Piper of Hamelin Free Download	Poem about boys	Sensational!
Cautionary poems	Cinquains	Poems for KS2	The suffix -ment
Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson	Five senses poetry writing exercise	Find rhyming words for poetry	Nonsense poems Lear + comprehension
Poetry types

There are available many very good poetry books for children which will stimulate their enjoyment and increase their appreciation of poems.

Poetry for KS3

Poetry books	Imaginative poetry	Technical words used in poetry	Poetry on trees KS3
Writing an epic poem Free Download	Poems of the First World War Free Download	Understanding a poem	Poetry writing for KS 3
Rhythm and rhyme Free Download	Poetry Archive	Limericks	Try writing your own poetry
Poetry and nature	The Lady of Shalott	Introduction to the Canterbury Tales	The Highwayman
Siegfried Sassoon Free Download	Rhyme and define	The lake isle of Innisfree	Porphyria's lover poem and thoughts
1914 Peace by Rupert Brooke	Cannon Fodder by Alec Waugh

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