Learning
Year 1 Poetry
Each year group allocates one week per term to focus on a particular type of poetry. Children 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 year 1 as follows:
Click on them to find out more about the poem.
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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 |
For performance, Year 1 will learn these poems. Click on these to find out more about these poems.