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.
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.
Writing a poem based on common sayings
A worksheet prompting your child to write a poem based on common sayings that they hear every day.
Time words
A worksheet prompting children to look for words associated with time in a poem. They then need to sort these words into categories.
Similes poem
A worksheet prompting your child to write some similes which they can then work into a poem.
Witch's spell poem
Use this worksheet to think of ingredients for a spell. This activity encourages children to write an imaginative poem and set their words and pictures out in an eye-catching way.
Winter nights poem
This worksheet will give your child a starting point from which to write an imaginative poem. Encourages thinking about interesting description and text layout.
Seaside similes poem
A worksheet to encourage children to generate similes and then organise them into a poem.
Writing poetry from prose
This worksheet encourages children to look at a piece of prose and improve it with their own phrases, before transforming the prose into a poem.
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.
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.