Poetry

Year Group

Type of Poem

Model Example to use

EYFS

A collection of poems linked with language and communication in EYFS

• Poems with repeated pattern
• Reciting/reading rhyming poems

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