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Write your own rhyme worksheet

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.
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Understand the concept of time

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.
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Writing a poem worksheet

Writing a poem

This worksheet encourages children to recognise rhyming words and then complete a poem using the word list given.
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Writing a riddle worksheet

Writing a riddle

A worksheet prompting your child to use descriptive phrases and rhyming words to write a riddle about an everyday object.
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Writing a poem based on common sayings

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.
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Time words worksheet

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.
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Similes poem worksheet

Similes poem

A worksheet prompting your child to write some similes which they can then work into a poem.
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Witch's spell poem worksheet

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.
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Winter nights poem worksheet

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.
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Seaside similes poem worksheet

Seaside similes poem

A worksheet to encourage children to generate similes and then organise them into a poem.
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Writing poetry from prose worksheetf

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.
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Acrostic adjectives worksheet

Acrostic adjectives

This poetry worksheet encourages your child to experiment with adjectives used to describe someone in order to write an acrostic poem / puzzle.
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Writing a haiku worksheet

Writing a haiku

This worksheet shows children how to structure a haiku and then gives them prompts on how to write their own.
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Alliteration: make up your own rhymes

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.
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Writing a poem using a writing frame

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.
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Write your own kenning worksheet

Write your own kenning

Learn all about kennings: practise using just two words words to create a highly descriptive image.
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Writing an acrostic poem worksheet

Writing an acrostic poem

A worksheet encouraging children to think of ideas and then structure them into an acrostic poem.
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All about imagery worksheet

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.
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Writing haiku poems worksheet

Writing haiku poems

A sheet encouraging children to choose a theme and then write three haikus that share this theme.
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Structuring a haiku worksheet

Structuring a haiku

Children are encouraged to read these haikus and then think about the way haikus are structured.
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