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Idea 281: FREE Poem Resource for Adding Suffixes to Words Ending with ‘y’, ‘Santa Contest’

DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE This is a resource I made to teach the Year 2 National Curriculum statutory requirement: “Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in –y with a consonant before it” where the guidance … Continue reading

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Idea 265: FREE ‘All 4 Sentence Types’ Riddle Poems: 32 Examples!

DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE There’s a great idea that has been doing the rounds recently on social media of using riddle poems as a way to have children use all four sentence types (statement, exclamation, command, question). I thought this … Continue reading

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Idea 264: FREE ‘Magic Word’ Poem Resource for ‘ur’ sound spelt as ‘or’ Spelling Pattern

DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE This is a poem I put together to highlight examples of words where the ‘ur’ sound like in ‘hurt’ is spelt with ‘or’ (word, work, worth, world). This is a Year 2 spelling pattern to be … Continue reading

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Idea 256: FREE Poem Resource for Teaching SPaG Possessive Apostrophes ‘Wizard’s Spell’

DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE This is a resource I created to help children learn about what can be a bit of a dry point of grammar. The poem features lots of examples of using a singular possessive apostrophe (which is … Continue reading

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Idea 208: Poem a day

I’m trying to find as many ways as possible to slip little ‘extra bits’ of learning into the school day wherever I can, as I’m aware of how powerful it is for children’s long-term retention if I am able to … Continue reading

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Idea 171: Poem Based on a Friend

Pupils choose a friend to use as their starting point for their poem. Ask the pupil to think of answers to the following questions: If your friend was a piece of furniture, what kind would they be? What kind of … Continue reading

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Idea 170: Structure for Beginner Poetry

This is a scaffold to allow pupils who are just discovering poetry to get into the swing of things. I often find that the problem with creative tasks is that children don’t know where to begin, as there are just … Continue reading

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Idea 98: Acrostic poems

ACROSTICS This is a nice introduction activity when you want to begin looking at poems. Before you start getting into the tricky area of having the students write a poem that rhymes, start off by having them write their name … Continue reading

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Idea 96: Syllable Pyramids and Haiku

SYLLABLE LESSON AND WRITING A HAIKU Firstly I gave my students some simple words and told them to listen for how many separate sounds they could hear. I find that even young students don’t have much trouble listening for syllables, … Continue reading

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