Ks2 Poetry and plays worksheets
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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 cinquain
Think of something that interests you and write a cinquain about it. Remember to follow the correct structure.
Reading and writing a list poem
In this list poem the poet has thought about things that are special to her and imagined putting them in a box. What would you put in your own precious box? Use the following questions to plan your own list 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.
Structuring a haiku
Children are encouraged to read these haikus and then think about the way haikus are structured.
Book reviews activity pack
Help your child explore books and language with TheSchoolRun's Book reviews activity pack, a huge collection of reading comprehension and creative writing resources for Year 1 to Year 6.
Revising poetic language crossword
Reading poetry isn’t just about ‘feature spotting’; working out a poem’s overall meaning and message and responding to it is the most important thing. Learning the definitions and spellings of the poetic terms in this crossword will help you express your thoughts about language in poetry, fiction and non-fiction texts, though.
Powerful adjectives
Adjectives are words use to modify or describe nouns. Using adjectives in your writing makes it more interesting, but only if you use interesting adjectives! Here is a list of nouns. For each of them, come up with AT LEAST TEN ADJECTIVES. The first few will probably be quite easy – and boring! These might be colours, for example. The trick is to really think about each subject and focus on different aspects of it. What does the subject look like, smell like, sound like, feel like?
Poetry composition
If the word ‘poetry’ makes you panic, don’t! It’s easier than you think to write a short descriptive poem that creates a striking image in the reader’s mind. Why not have a go?
Shakespeare plays wordsearch
Challenge your KS2 child to a Shakespearean wordsearch. Can they find the titles of 14 of the Bard's famous plays hidden in the wordsearch grid?
Using personification in poetry
Read through this poem. In this poem, night is personified. Can you underline any phrases that suggest that night is a person? Then write down some of your ideas and use them to write your own poem that personifies night.
Imagery in poetry: personification
Personification is a figure of speech in which a non-living object is given the characteristics of a person. Can you read through this poem and underline any examples of personification then have a go at writing your own personification poem?
Building imagery in poetry: using powerful verbs and adverbs
Each object in this poem is personified by a powerful verb and an adverb. Can you underline all the verbs in blue and all the adverbs in pink? Then draw four of the personified objects behaving as they are described.
Reading and writing a free verse poem
A free verse poem is one that does not follow any rhyme scheme or have a particular structure – you’re free to write any way you want! Read this poem out loud then talk to an adult about your first impressions of it.
Writing a cinquain
Think of something that interests you and write a cinquain about it. Remember to follow the correct structure.
Using similes in poetry
Think about something in nature. Now draw a picture of your subject in the middle of this spider diagram. Write similes to describe it in the boxes on the outside
Setting out a play script correctly
Read this passage of text from a story. Write the speech out as a play script, using the frame to guide you. Remember to include stage directions to show what people are doing.
Reading and writing a list poem
In this list poem the poet has thought about things that are special to her and imagined putting them in a box. What would you put in your own precious box? Use the following questions to plan your own list poem.
Haikus explained
A haiku is a poem that only has three lines. The first line has five syllables, the second seven and the third five again. Read this haiku describing a woman. Can you count the syllables in each line? What words has the poet used to describe the woman? Underline all the describing words (adjectives).
Exploring poetry: question and answer poems
Here is a poem that is made up of questions and answers. Where is the rhyme in this poem? What could you say about the way it is structured?
Exploring poetry: list poems
Some poems are very simply written as a list. Write your own list poem about the most disgusting dinner ever.
Exploring poetry: haiku poems
Look through a magazine or newspaper for an interesting picture. Cut it out and stick it in the box. Write as many words and phrases about your picture as you can. Let your imagination run wild! Can
you include some similes? Now put a circle around the words and phrases that you particularly like. Can you write a haiku using these words?
you include some similes? Now put a circle around the words and phrases that you particularly like. Can you write a haiku using these words?
Exploring poetry: cinquains
A cinquain is a five-line poem which follows a particular structure. Can you explain each line of this poem to an adult? Are there any words you don’t understand? If so, look them up in a dictionary. Look at the cinquain below. Does it follow the same structure?
Creating images in poetry
A simile is when something is compared to something else, using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’. This poem is about acorns. It contains two similes; can you find them?