Year Group |
Type of Poem |
Model Example to use |
EYFS |
A collection of poems linked with language and communication in EYFS
|
Five Garden Snails & additional collection of animal poems |
Year 1 |
Rhyming Poems
Acrostic Poems |
Teddy bears
Stars |
Year 2 |
Classic humorous poems
Concrete poems |
Old Mother Hubbard humorous poem by Sarah Catherine Martin
Butterfly |
Year 3 |
Free verse poems
Nonsense poems |
School
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll |
Year 4 |
Haiku poems
Kenning poems |
City and village life (2 poems)
Tiger |
Year 5 |
Limerick poems
Sonnet peoms
*** additional unit of work based around narrative poem the highway man (unit study) |
Nonsense Limericks by Edward Lear
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (Rhyming pattern ABAB CDCD EFEF GG) |
Year 6 |
Ode poems
Narrative poems |
Music festivals
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe |