by admin | Sep 2, 2022 | Book Reviews
Now, this is a poetry book for children worth getting excited about. Subtitled Thirty-One Putrid Poems for October, this collection of Halloween-themed poems is a delight. Darkly comic and anarchic in the tradition of Roald Dahl, this book invites you in from the very...
by admin | Oct 6, 2020 | Book Reviews
‘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...
by admin | May 26, 2020 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Poetry, Resource Packs, Writing
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,...
by admin | May 8, 2020 | Free
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...
by admin | Apr 20, 2019 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, English, Writing
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...
