Poetry and plays worksheets
Free worksheets: Poetry and plays, EYFS, Reception
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Rhyming maze
Can you help the animals through the mazes? Follow the words that rhyme with your pencil to help them to their snacks.
Acrostic adjectives
This poetry worksheet encourages your child to experiment with adjectives used to describe someone in order to write an acrostic poem / puzzle.
Writing a haiku
This worksheet shows children how to structure a haiku and then gives them prompts on how to write their own.
Alliteration: make up your own rhymes
This worksheet covers work from the KS1 English curriculum and will help your child to understand and use alliteration.
Writing a poem using a writing frame
This poem encourages children to write a poem about something that they often make a fuss about. They are given a writing frame to support them.
Write your own kenning
Learn all about kennings: practise using just two words words to create a highly descriptive image.
Writing an acrostic poem
A worksheet encouraging children to think of ideas and then structure them into an acrostic poem.
Write a poem about parts of the body
This English worksheet will help to develop your child's skills of reading and understanding poetry. It encourages creativity and will help your child write in an imaginative and poetic way.
Writing a limerick
A worksheet encouraging children to read a limerick and think about its structure, then structure their own limerick.
Poetry word games
This great word game helps children get familiar with all aspects of poetry including rhyming and alternative patterns.
Writing about your favourite poem
A worksheet giving prompts for children to think and write about the setting, structure and language of their favourite poem.
Use onomatopoeia in poetry
This fun with phonics activity will help your child to make patterns of sounds to create effects.
Rhyming words
Encourage your child to read this poem out loud and then look for the rhyming words.
Explore and play with words
This Key Stage 1 reading and writing activity will help your child to explore and play with words and use an easy format for writing fun poetry.
Write your own rhyme
This worksheet gives an example of a poem and then encourages your child to use the writing frame to write their own rhyming poem.
Understand the concept of time
This worksheet activity will help your child to understand how long a second and a minute are and use their knowledge to write simple poetry.
Writing a poem
This worksheet encourages children to recognise rhyming words and then complete a poem using the word list given.
Writing a riddle
A worksheet prompting your child to use descriptive phrases and rhyming words to write a riddle about an everyday object.
All about imagery
Imagery is used in writing to help us imagine a place or character more clearly. This worksheet helps your child practise identifying imagery and then come up with their own metaphors and similes to enrich their descriptive writing.
Writing haiku poems
A sheet encouraging children to choose a theme and then write three haikus that share this theme.
Structuring a haiku
Children are encouraged to read these haikus and then think about the way haikus are structured.