Learning
Poetry at St Stephen's
Poetry spine across St Stephen's
Poetry studies that will require are written outcome should be taught across the year. Each year group must allocate one week per term to focus on a particular type of poetry. Children should spend time during the week reading, discussing, reviewing and creating poems in the given style that they are learning. Poetry types have been allocated to each year group as follows:
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Alphabet List Poems |
An alphabet of horrible habits by Colin West Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar Book |
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Rhyming Couplets |
Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar Book 10 Dancing Dinosaurs by John Foster |
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Performance Poetry |
Miss Polly Hot Cross Buns One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Caribbean Counting Poem by Pamela Mordecai The Dark Wood |
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Y1 |
Alliterative List Poems |
Alphabet Poem by Michael Rosen Pineapple by Vyanne Samuel |
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Simple Riddles |
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Innovate a well-known rhyme (written) |
Incey Wincy Spider There Was a Crooked Man Hey Diddle Diddle |
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Performance Poetry |
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Voices of Water by Tony Mitton My Colours by Colin West Hands by Julia Donaldson Queue for the Zoo by Clare Bevan |
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Y2 |
Acrostic Poems |
Fireworks by Gervase Phinn Christmas by Gervase Phinn |
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Quatrain – AABB or ABAB |
Food Stop by Benjamin Zephaniah Excuses by Alan Ahlberg Peter Pan by Andrea Shavick Rumble in the Jungle (book) by Giles Andreae & David Wojtowycz Tasty Poems (book) by Jill Bennet & Nick Sharratt |
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Shape Poem |
What is he? By Liz Brownlee The Shape of a poem by Chris Odgen Aaaah!!! At Last It’s Spring by James Carter Family Tree by Damien Harvey Word Whirls by John Foster |
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Performance Poetry |
I’m Walking with my Iguana by Brian Moses Solo with Chorus by Rose Fyleman Nut Tree by Julia Donaldson The Dinosaur Rap by John Foster Cats by Eleanor Farjeon Shhhhhh! By Julia Donaldson |
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Y3 |
Narrative with Rhyme |
Scared by Michael Rosen The Listeners by Walter de la Mer The Sound Collector by Roger McGough |
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Question & Answer poems |
Registration by Allan Ahlberg Cool School by Michael Rosen What is Pink by Christina Rossetti |
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Haiku & Tankas |
Haiku Seaview Haiku by John Foster Windy Day by John Foster Haiky Riddle by Celia Warren
Tanka Silver Aeroplane by John Foster The Penny Black by John Foster Two Tanka Riddles by Marian Swinger |
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Performance Poetry |
Life doesn’t frighten me at all by Mya Angelou The Sound Collector by Roger McGough Twenty Four Hours by Charles Causley Instructions for Giants by John Rice |
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Y4 |
Limericks |
Loopy Limericks (book) by John Foste |
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Monologue (one voice) |
Team Talk by Allan Ahlberg There’s an Alien in the Classroom by Gervais Phinn |
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Metaphor poems |
The Sun by Wes Magee Don’t Be Scared by Carol Ann Duffy |
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Performance Poetry |
The Treasures by Clare Bevan Today I feel by Gervais Phinn The Trouble with My Brother by Brian Patten You Can’t Stop Me by Miriam Moss |
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Y5 |
Cinquain |
November Night by Adelaide Crapsey Snow by Adelaide Crapsey Winter by Adelaide Crapsey Blackbird by John Foster At the Gate by John Foster The Wood in Late Autumn by John Foster Mirror by John Foster |
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Simile and Metaphor |
The Night Will Never Stay by Eleanor Farjeon Bluebottle by Judith Nichols Windrush Child by John Agard |
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Personification Poems |
Winter by Olivia Kooker Snow and Snow by Ted Hughes It’s Spring by John Foster Jack Frost by C.E Pike |
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Performance Poetry |
Give and Take by Roger McGough Conversation Piece by Gareth Owen Football Mad by Benjamin Zephaniah |
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Y6 |
Blank Verse (classics) |
Mercutio’s Queen Mab Monologue in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The Mending Wall by Robert Frost To Be or Not To Be from Hamlet by William Shakespeare Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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Sonnets (classic) |
Compare 2 classic sonnets for content, use of language and rhyme pattern eg Summer- water Sonnet by Gillian Clarke Lines Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth |
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Narrative/classic |
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear The Listeners by Walter De La Mare The Pied Piper by Robert Browning Matilda by Hillaire Belloc The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon The Sick Rose by William Blake |
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Performance Poetry |
The Visitor by Ian Serrailler Cargoes by John Masefield The Lion and Albert by Marriot Edgar What I Love About School by Roger McGough Sonnets Mermaid by Susan Rogerson Who Can Know ? by Susan Cartwright Smith The Bottom of the Jar by Susan Cartwright Smith |
Famous or Classic Poems for Children at S Stephen's to Perform Aloud
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