This text features poems for Reception and Years 1 and 2. It contains poems which cover every form and theme of the Literacy Strategy, an index of poem types, advice for writing poems, advice for reading poems, poetry activities, and some workshop ideas and lesson plans.

This text features poems for Years 3, 4, 5, and 6. It contains poems which cover every form and theme of the Literacy Strategy, an index of poem types, advice for writing poems, advice for reading poems, poetry activities, and some workshop ideas and lesson plans.

Teachers who want to cut lesson planning time should welcome this series. The new editions are revised in line with the new literacy framework and bring you new models. Writing Models aims to help teachers cover every sort of writing type they need; fine tune lessons by following key teaching points for each model; and deliver the new literacy units to pupils of varying ability using different versions of the same model.
Each book in the series gives you:


A bank of easy-to-use, photocopiable models for writing covering poetry, narrative and non-fiction


Key teaching points for each model...

A good poetry idea should help the children feel excited about writing and enable them to think of what to write - developing their imagination, creativity and writing skills.

Jumpstart! Poetryis about involving children as creative writers through writing poems. The book contains a bank of ideas that can be drawn upon when teaching poetry but also at other times to provide a source for creative writing that children relish. There are more than100quick warm-ups to fire the brain into a creativemoodand to‘jumpstart’ reading, writing and performing poetry in any key stage 1 or 2...