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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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John Mole: Nothing Personal

Age groups: 11-14, 9-11

Exercise Suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4 John Mole’s poem ‘Nothing Personal’ takes the listener and ...

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Children’s Poetry Archive Challenge No 8

Age groups: 11-14, 5-7, 7-9, 9-11

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

Age groups: 11-14, 5-7, 7-9, 9-11

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

Age groups: 5-7, 7-9, 9-11

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

Age groups: 5-7, 7-9, 9-11

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

Age groups: 5-7, 7-9, 9-11

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

Age groups: 5-7, 7-9, 9-11

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

Age groups: 5-7, 7-9, 9-11

This challenge is for our intrepid poetry fans to solve. We’ve set five questions about some of our ...

Classroom Material

Allan Ahlberg: Please Mrs Butler

Age groups: 7-9, 9-11

'Please Mrs Butler' is the title poem of one of the most popular collections of poems for children in the ...

Classroom Material

Brian Moses: Walking with my Iguana

Age groups: 7-9, 9-11

'Walking with my Iguana' is a highly energetic performance poem which cries out to be responded to ...

Classroom Material

Judith Nicholls: Bluebottle

Age groups: 7-9, 9-11

'Bluebottle' is a good example of a poem which does a lot with very few words. It is also a good example ...

Classroom Material

John Mole: Variation on an Old Rhyme

Age groups: 7-9, 9-11

These ideas are informed by an inclusive style of teaching and are multi-sensory in their offering. This ...

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