Classroom Resources
Our aim is to equip and inspire you to teach poetry with confidence and enjoyment. Here you’ll find a wealth of tools, strategies and ideas for using our archive recordings to enhance your teaching
There’s have a strong emphasis on hearing and speaking poetry, because this is what the Poetry Archive is all about. But it’s also because we know that’s at the heart of everything to do with poetry.
The resources include Learning Resources to support different aspects of teaching, Classroom Materials structured lessons for individual poems and Classroom Collections curated collections to provide new and exciting ways to explore poetry.
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Children’s Poetry Archive Challenge No 8
This challenge takes you on a tour of the natural world and all the beautiful things we see around us. To ...
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Children’s Poetry Archive Challenge No 6
This challenge is all about poems to do with hopes and dreams. To find the answers, all you have to do is ...
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Children’s Poetry Archive Challenge 5
This challenge takes you on a tour through all sorts of poems about all sorts of things. To find the ...
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Children’s Poetry Archive Challenge 4
Families come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. These poems are all about family life and the different ...
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Children’s Poetry Archive Challenge 3
This challenge looks at poems about animals and some of the strange things they do. To find the answers, ...
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Children’s Poetry Archive Challenge 2
This Challenge looks at poems about people and all the different identities that people have.
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Children’s Poetry Archive Challenge 1
This challenge is for our intrepid poetry fans to solve. We’ve set five questions about some of our ...
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Michael Rosen: The News
Since his very early work one of Michael Rosen's strengths as a poet has been his ability to engage ...
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Back to School Poems
Poems that deal with the subject of school and education. Great way to the start a new academic year!
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Valerie Bloom: Granny Is
One of the things Valerie Bloom excels at is renewing our view of the world by describing it freshly ...
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Wes Magee: The Boneyard Rap
These ideas are informed by an inclusive style of teaching and are multi-sensory in their offering. This ...