Book Review – P is for Poetry

Book Review – P is for Poetry

‘P is for Poetry – Poems from Irish Poets’ edited by Seamus Cashman and illustrated by Corina Askin and Alan Clarke is an excellent book for people of all ages. Filled with colourful illustrations and delightful poems on a broad range of topics, this book will have...
The Writing Poetry Pack

The Writing Poetry Pack

This new resource pack is intended to support a unit of work on Writing Poetry in middle and senior classes. It contains 20 different types of poetry to write with 100 pages of resource material. The pack contains an explanation of each type of poem, a sample poem,...
Auto-Bio Poems

Auto-Bio Poems

This Free poetry writing resource gives pupils a structured template to help them to write an autobiographical poem. The poem has eleven lines and pupils just have to follow the set formula to compose the poem. The resource also contains a blank template onto which...
Alliteration Posters

Alliteration Posters

In this, the sixth resource in our “Figures of Speech” poster series, the focus is on Alliteration. Alliteration is a Figure of Speech which is commonly used in creative writing, especially poetry. This pack contains sixteen posters illustrating some examples of...
Book Review: A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea

Book Review: A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea

The children in my class thought that this book, “A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea” by Sarah Webb and Steve Mc Carthy,  was a fabulous book. They really enjoyed the poems and they had great fun reading the poems by themselves and aloud. The collection of poems is...