Learning
Reception Poetry
Each year group allocates one week per term to focus on a particular type of poetry. Children spend time during the week reading, discussing, reviewing and creating poems in the given style that they are learning. Poetry types have been allocated to each year group as follows:
Click on them to find out more about the poem.
Type |
Examples |
Innovate a well-known rhyme (verbally) |
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star |
Alphabet List Poems |
An alphabet of horrible habits by Colin West Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar Book |
Rhyming Couplets |
Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar Book 10 Dancing Dinosaurs by John Foster |
Performance Poetry |
Miss Polly Hot Cross Buns One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Caribbean Counting Poem by Pamela Mordecai The Dark Wood |
For performance, Reception will learn these poems. Click on these to find out more about these poems.