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10 of the Best Poems about Journeys

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)

According to Thomas de Quincey, Wordsworth clocked up an estimated 180,000 miles during his lifetime, walking around his beloved Lake District (to say nothing of the Quantocks, where he lived near Coleridge during the 1790s).

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Andrew Marvell, ‘ Bermudas ’.

Where the remote Bermudas ride In th’ocean’s bosom unespied, From a small boat, that row’d along, The list’ning winds receiv’d this song. ‘What should we do but sing his praise That led us through the wat’ry maze Unto an isle so long unknown, And yet far kinder than our own?

This poem, from the seventeenth-century poet Andrew Marvell, is set in the Atlantic ocean and focuses on a group of people aboard a boat, and clearly in exile from their native land. They spy the island of Bermuda, and sing a song in praise of the island. The next 32 lines of the poem comprise their song.

The people aboard the boat praise God for leading them to this previously undiscovered island, which seems ‘far kinder’ than the island they have left behind, namely Britain.

These people have endured and eluded sea-monsters and storms, and God has led them to safety on the ‘grassy stage’ of this new island. It is mentioned that they are fleeing England because of ‘prelates’ rage’, namely religious persecution – so ‘Bermudas’ is a poem about undertaking a difficult journey to find a new place where a community of people can start afresh.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner .

The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.

‘The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top.

‘The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea …

Written in 1797-8, this is Coleridge’s most famous poem – it first appeared in Lyrical Ballads . The idea of killing an albatross bringing bad luck upon the crew of a ship appears to have been invented in this poem, as there is no precedent for it – and the albatross idea was probably William Wordsworth’s, not Coleridge’s (Wordsworth got the idea of the albatross-killing from a 1726 book, A Voyage Round The World by Way of the Great South Sea , by Captain George Shelvocke).

The poem is one of the great narrative poems in English, with the old mariner recounting his story, with its hardships and tragedy, to a wedding guest. Variously interpreted as being about guilt over the Transatlantic slave trade, about Coleridge’s own loneliness, and about spiritual salvation, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner remains a challenging poem about a journey whose lessons the ship’s crew, and we as readers, continue to learn from.

Robert Browning, ‘ How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix ’.

I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I gallop’d, Dirck gallop’d, we gallop’d all three; ‘Good speed!’ cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; ‘Speed!’ echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we gallop’d abreast …

Beginning with the wonderfully rhythmical lines ‘I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; / I gallop’d, Dirck gallop’d, we gallop’d all three’. But this poem, describing a horse-ride to deliver some important news (although we never learn what the news actually is). Instead, the emphasis is on the journey itself, with the sound of the galloping horses excellently captured through the metre of the verse.

This poem has a notable claim to fame: in 1889, it became the first poem (spoken by the author) to be recorded on a phonograph, when Browning recited (half-remembered) words from the poem into an Edison phonograph at a dinner party.

Henry Cholmondeley Pennell, ‘ The Night Mail North ’.

Now then, take your seats! for Glasgow and the North; Chester! – Carlisle! – Holyhead, – and the wild Firth of Forth,

‘Clap on the steam and sharp’s the word, You men in scarlet cloth: –

‘Are there any more pas .. sengers, For the Night .. Mail .. to the North!’ Are there any more passengers? Yes three – but they can’t get in, – Too late, too late! – How they bellow and knock, They might as well try to soften a rock As the heart of that fellow in green …’

Before W. H. Auden’s more famous ‘Night Mail’ poem from 1936, there was this poem, whose full title is ‘The Night Mail North (Euston Square, 1840)’ – 1840 being the year the penny post was introduced in Britain. Pennell captures the snatches of conversation on the train as it prepares to embark on its long voyage north and the passengers settle down for their journey in this skilful piece of what we might call documentary poetry.

Emily Dickinson, ‘ Our Journey had advanced ’.

Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being’s road, Eternity by term …

In many of the best journey poems, the journey is a metaphor for something greater – and this is certainly the case in this Emily Dickinson poem. And what journey is greater than that from life into death, mortality into eternity?

A. E. Housman, ‘ White in the moon the long road lies ’.

White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.

Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way …

In this poem, the king of lugubrious English verse writes about leaving his beloved, with the road lying ahead of him that ‘leads me from my love’. And although he trusts that the same road will eventually lead him back to his love, first he must travel far, far away.

W. B. Yeats, ‘ Sailing to Byzantium ’.

That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees, —Those dying generations—at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect …

W. B. Yeats wrote ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ in 1927, when he was in his early sixties, and the poem sees Yeats’s speaker announcing that the country he’s left behind is ‘no country for old men’.

Being old, the speaker felt out of place there, and so he is making a journey (a pilgrimage?) to the ancient city of Byzantium, which can be read as a symbol for his yearning for spiritual meaning: the poem, then, is about a spiritual journey, and renouncing the hold of the world upon us in order to attain something higher than the physical or sensual.

D. H. Lawrence, ‘ The Ship of Death ’.

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion.

The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

And it is time to go, to bid farewell to one’s own self, and find an exit from the fallen self …

A poem of angst and death, ‘The Ship of Death’ uses the metaphor of a journey to invoke the idea of self-discovery: the poem involves the poem’s speaker calling for the reader to prepare a ‘ship of death’ – ‘the fragile ship of courage, the ark of faith’ – to transport them to ‘oblivion’, travelling from ‘the old self’ to ‘the new’.

T. S. Eliot, ‘ Journey of the Magi ’.

A nativity poem with a difference, ‘Journey of the Magi’ (1927) is spoken by one of the ‘Three Wise Men’ (as they’re commonly known), as they make their journey to visit the infant Jesus. The speaker reflects on the hardships he and his fellow travellers endure on their journey, and the implications of the advent of Christ for the Magi’s own belief system.

Philip Larkin, ‘ The Whitsun Weddings ’.

This poem, the title poem in Larkin’s 1964 collection, describes a journey from Hull to London on the Whitsun weekend and the wedding parties that Larkin sees climbing aboard the train at each station. Actually inspired by a train journey from Hull down to Loughborough in the Midlands, ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ captures the hope and togetherness these wedding parties symbolise – although the poem can also be read in a less optimistic way .

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A writing root for journey.

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Year Group: Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Literary Theme: Coming together & community

Author(s): Aaron Becker

"The most fantastic way to launch the year: our whole primary school is excited to write."

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Predictions, retellings in role, maps, posters, a travel diary, instructions and a story sequel.

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This is a two-week Whole School Writing Root for Journey by Aaron Becker. The resource has been designed to be used by an entire school to foster a shared learning experience around one text and to engender written outcomes – some with the same audiences and purposes, some not – that are ‘at pitch’ for each phase/stage but that will also aid revision, catch-up and extension where (and in whichever form) needed. We have planned for activities at 3 stages: Reception with Year 1; Year 2 with Year 3 and then Year 4 to Year 6. The resource is intended to form the basis upon which schools and teachers can create and shape a sequence of learning that will work within their context.  The sessions could be added to with art activities and through further learning in PSHE, Science, Geography and History.

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The winner of the prestigious Caldecott Honor, and described by the New York Times as 'a masterwork', Aaron Becker's stunning, wordless picture book debut about self-determination and unexpected friendship follows a little girl who draws a magic door on her bedroom wall. Through it she escapes into a world where wonder, adventure and danger abound. Red marker pen in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon and a flying carpet which carry her on a spectacular journey ... who knows where? When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also guide her home and to happiness? In this exquisitely illustrated book, an ordinary child is launched on an extraordinary, magical journey towards her greatest and most rewarding adventure of all...

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Improve primary pupils' poetry writing and comprehension skills with our selection of resources, lessons, activities and more…

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You may be a budding poet yourself or, frankly, a little afraid of it, but there’s no reason not to dive into teaching KS2 poems with this plethora of resources and ideas from poetry experts and teachers…

Pie Corbett poetry lessons

Poetry model text resource packs, performance poetry lesson plan, write spooky sound poems inspired by neil gaiman, listen to this michael rosen podcast, five poets read their poems, creating imaginative characterisation in poetry, write mischievous ks2 poems like dahl’s revolting rhymes, performance poetry lesson, nature poem templates, war poetry for ks2, a poem a day, write free verse about king cnut and king midas, 5 ideas to help ks2 pupils find the power of poetry, how to use a poetry unit to build vocabulary, 5 brilliant collections of poetry to have in your classroom.

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Inspire your KS2 students to express themselves and get creative with our exclusive Pie Corbett KS2 Poems Collection . Each of the six packs include a Powerpoint of the poem and a PDF full of teaching ideas to help you power up your English lessons.

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This selection of Real Writing poetry resources from Plazoom use model texts by award-winning author Joshua Seigal as the jumping off point to cover a variety of subjects.

Click the links below to check them out.

  • I Have… (curriculum link: English – writing for purpose)
  • Dreams of Escape (curriculum link: science – changing state)
  • Water Cycle Haiku (curriculum link: geography – water cycle)
  • Rivers (curriculum link: geography – rivers)

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Use exaggeration to write funny KS2 poems with this free English lesson plan by teacher Jonny Walker. Children will play with concepts of true, false and exaggeration, using Fridge by Michael Rosen as a jumping off point.

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Getting children to write great poetry can sometimes be a bit hit and miss, but if they are given a clear framework and a fun hook, it can be a really rewarding experience.

This free KS2 poems lesson plan shows how a well-known poem can be combined with a fantastic picture book to offer children a language rich stimulus that will enable them to write their own successful piece of poetry.

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In episode 16 of Author In Your Classroom podcast Michael Rosen discusses migration and his poetry collection ‘On the Move’. There’s also a  free resource pack  to go along with it, which includes a PowerPoint, poem, images for a wall display, planning sheets, teacher notes and more.

How might thinking about ‘truth’ inspire a poet? Here are five of your pupils’ favourites reading a piece of their own work with a connection to the theme, and talking about some of the ideas behind it.

Watch the videos of Karl Nova, Michael Rosen, Rachel Rooney, Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Joseph Coelho reading their poems, then download the full text of the poems , alongside suggestions for teaching and learning activities related to each one.

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Writing is hard; writing poetry is even harder. You have a lot to think about: structure, rhythm, rhyme and so on. Creating scaffolds for children can help them to really concentrate on the words they are using rather than structure.

In this free KS2 poems English lesson plan pupils take the basic creative structure of a poem (‘No Breathing in Class’ by Michael Rosen) and edit it to create a new one.

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Roald Dahl took traditional fairy stories and turned them into wonderfully wicked  Revolting Rhymes . With a structured approach, this free lesson plan can help your class do the same.

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There’s neither rhyme nor reason why children should see poems as punishment. Used effectively, poetry is a brilliant way to develop narrative writing skills and an understanding of the impact words can have.

This KS2 poems lesson plan uses one of the most potent pieces of poetry you can use in a primary school setting – ‘The Listeners’ by Walter de la Mare.

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This KS2 poems download from poet Zaro Weil features poetry examples, poem templates and teacher notes to help you get your class having lots of imaginative fun with nature and poetry.

One deadly breath blasts from the giant suddenly he is screeching to a halt beside me

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Created for Remembrance Day, explore World War One poetry to help Year 6 pupils understand what life was like on the frontline.

This Plazoom resource pack includes information about Remembrance Day and why the poppy is used as a symbol for remembrance before exploring the poem Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.

Pupils will then write their own narratives about life in the trenches, using ideas and vocabulary from Wilfred Owen’s poem.

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Want to expose children to the amazing language of nearly 2,000 different poems? Start by reading just one a day.

That’s the advice from Tre Christopher and Pet Henshaw. Read about why and how you can do this , what KS2 poems you should try and what resources will help.

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Use these KS2 activities from Karen Hart, which cover mime, poetry, storytelling and writing, to explore the stories of King Cnut and King Midas.

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Former headteacher and chief executive of CLPE, Louise Johns-Shepherd, explains how to inspire KS2 pupils with poetry…

1 | Make poetry available

Look for and make available collections and anthologies that open children’s eyes to what poetry is, and what it can do. This is something that previous winners of the CLPE Poetry Award, the CLIPPA , do particularly well.

Take 2017’s winner,  Moon Juice  by Kate Wakeling . This collection contains humorous poems, lyrical poems that follow rich rhythms, emotive poetry written from personal experience and poems that offer windows into the writer’s fascinations and direct, real-life experience.

Make sure that poetry is available to children, and that the poetry on offer shows that it is a multi-dimensional and exciting form.

2 | Read poetry aloud

Read poetry aloud often. Drop it into every moment of the school day, with no preconceived agenda. Give children the opportunity to hear and see a wide range of poets reading and performing their poetry. Children need to see the universality of poetry and that poetry is for them.

Seeing poems performed by the poets who wrote them opens up children’s perceptions about poetry. It is important to make sure that children have access to the work of a wide range of poets, and to the work of poets that reflect the realities of children in our schools.

“Give children the opportunity to hear and see a wide range of poets reading and performing their poetry”

Only then will children really grasp that poetry is a space for them.

Children need to feel the joy in reading poetry aloud themselves, joining in, dramatising and performing poems. If poetry is not given a voice, if it just stays on the page as a printed object, then it is not going to come alive for most children.

3 | Try ‘poetry papering’

Children need time to read, re-read and respond to poetry. However, we must make sure that we don’t jump into trying to dissect the poem before giving the children the opportunity to internalise and respond to it at a personal level.

A technique like ‘poetry papering’ works really well. Select a number of different poems, illustrating different poets, styles and forms. Photocopy the poems and pin them up around the classroom or another space for the children to find and explore at their leisure.

They can read, pass over, move on and then select one they’d like to talk about with someone else. This encourages children to enjoy the experience of simply reading a poem, to relish the uncertainties of meanings and the nature of the knowledge and emotional responses that poems invoke in them as readers.

Let them look for connections, ask questions, explore what they like about poems and the use of language. You can use this as an opportunity to introduce children to the names of specific forms or devices.

You might introduce this by way of what Michael Rosen calls ‘secret strings’ ( What is Poetry?  Walker 2016 ). He talks about the importance of discovering how the poet might have used assonance, alliteration, imagery, rhythm and sound.

4 | Invite in practising poets

Seeing a poet bring their own work to life and beginning to understand what that means in terms of the creation of poetry helps children to see themselves as writers. And teachers also benefit from working alongside poets.

During our Power of Poetry project, educators found their teaching was improved by understanding the creative process.

“Teachers also benefit from working alongside poets”

Listen to poets talk about their writing process; what inspires them, how they work, how they draft, edit and redraft – all this yields a wealth of information to consider the freedoms and support we give children in their own writing.

5 | Support children to become poets

In order to write poetry, children need to experience different kinds of poems so that they can see how different forms work: sing-song rhythms of chants, rhymes and refrains, the joy of humorous and nonsense verse and poems that explore different forms, such as rhyme, free verse, haiku and sonnets.

Children then have a context to discover the rich history of poetry, exploring where these forms came from and how they work as well as showing them what they can do in their own writing.

Through writing poetry children are encouraged to reflect on their experience, to recreate it, shape it, and make sense of it. In a poem it is possible to give form and significance to a particular event or feeling and to communicate this to the reader or to the listener.

  • Read the findings of CLPE’s Power of Poetry Project .
  • Read Poetry in Primary Schools: What We Know Works from CLPE.
  • The Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award (CLiPPA)  Shadowing Scheme  provides free resources to encourage children to perform and find the joy in poetry.
  • Michael Rosen has written a series of very informative  blog posts  on teaching poetry in primary schools.
  • Search  CLPE’s poetry section  for book recommendations, KS2 poems and resources.
  • Listen to poets reading their own work at  childrenspoetryarchive.org .

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Experimenting with verse helps children to develop powerful language skills that will shine out in all their writing, explains Jane Andrews, English adviser at  HFL Education…

When writing, in their eagerness to get everything correct, children sometimes struggle to hit the right tone for the reader. A key issue in the past has been children thinking they have to use the ‘wowiest’ word available in a thesaurus, rather than the ‘right’ word.

They may also be working towards lengthy success criteria and, when this process is not focused on the purpose of writing and its effect on the reader, it can send the outcome awry.

The following activities show how using a poetry unit to build vocabulary before a narrative or non-fiction unit can lift children’s understanding of well-chosen language – how to paint a picture with words and play with the reader’s emotions.

Free verse ideas

With free verse poetry, children don’t need to worry about clause structures and, in fact, this is a place where playing with and breaking the rules is encouraged.

Let’s imagine we have an upcoming narrative or non-fiction unit on dragons. Spend a week on the following free verse ideas, which will build the children’s vocabulary and help them consider how this language affects the reader.

A shared read of Jackie Morris’s wonderful text,  Tell Me A Dragon  might be a good starting point and a way of firing up everyone’s creative juices.

With all of the vocabulary building approaches, it is essential that you provide some words that children know but don’t use themselves, and a few they might not know but would be very useful.

Develop vocab with acrostics

This approach helps children consider whether the vocabulary they are using is appropriate for the effect they wish to create. Is their dragon, for example, friendly? Might he be a hero? Or deadly?

Ask pupils to generate as many words as possible that might relate to their dragon beginning with each letter of the main noun itself (D-R-A-G-O-N).

Add some suggestions and a variety of pictures to support and develop this process. You can even model it using a different subject, eg ‘T-E-A-C-H-E-R-S’.

Eventually, children can write an acrostic poem, letting those words set the tone for the rest of each line:

D ragons R age screaming from deadly eyes A ngry fire destroying everything in its path G igantic eyes, never missing a trick O dorous steam streaming from its cavernous nostrils N oxious breath S cales like a knight’s armour, shielding from attack

Cut-up poem

Take a short poem or a verse from a poem you will be studying. Print it, using double line spacing, and then cut up the lines.

Place these in an envelope and then ask children to put the lines in an order they believe makes sense.

Sometimes they will be able to begin with the only line that starts with a capital letter and put it at the top, then place the line ending with a full stop at the bottom. But not all poems give such clues. This is immediately something to discuss.

There is no wrong and right; it is the conversations evolving from their thought processes that are important. You might want to choose poems about animals, such as ‘ My Brother Bert’ by Ted Hughes or ‘ Penguins on Ice’ by Celia Warren .

“It is the conversations evolving from their thought processes that are important”

Suitable similes

I’m sure we’ve all seen a variety of inappropriate similes. I’ve seen ‘as white as ice cream’ to show how white somebody had turned in fear.

We have only to ask the children if they want to put a picture of an ice cream into somebody’s mind while building the tension in our story and they realise it’s inappropriate. This approach helps them to consider how to develop appropriate similes and metaphors.

We start with the clichés such as ‘As light as ….’ and the children respond ‘a feather’. We then model how to push this simile by explaining that I could think of something lighter.

I would need to think of something really small, like a fairy. Then I would push it to find something even smaller like a fairy’s eyelash and then a tear drop. Now I have as light as the teardrop on the end of a fairy’s eyelash.

Again, this is only appropriate if I want something as lovely as a fairy in the reader’s mind. Going back to my dragons I might have ‘its fire is like a scorching wind striking down anything in its path’.

I could then change that to a metaphor by saying that ‘its fire is a scorching wind, striking down anything in its path.’

Playing with grammar

This is a simple game with great results. First of all, decide as a whole class the feeling we want to create about our dragon, eg dangerous, endangered, friendly, etc. Mine is ‘dangerous’. (The grammar exemplified is for Year 4, but you would choose word classes appropriate for your pupils.)

  • Fold a piece of paper in half and half again, creating four columns down the page. Write four verbs, one in each column to describe your dragon, eg screeching, tearing, attacking, swooping.
  • Fold the paper over and pass to the next person, who writes four determiners, eg one, some, a, few.
  • Fold the paper over again and pass to the next person, who writes four nouns, eg breath, nostrils, eyes, scales.
  • Repeat this process, with the next person writing four prepositions, eg beside, with, under, beneath.

The paper is then passed to the final person who has to create a poem.

Each line must include a word taken from each column, but this can be placed anywhere within the line along with any other language. For example:

Charlotte Hacking, learning programmes leader at the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) picks her favourites…

A Great Big Cuddle  by Michael Rosen

A rich mix of poems that play with words and sounds, engage young readers with rhythms and rhymes and show that poetry can tell a story or share our feelings. Poems that children will want to join in with, move to and talk about.

The Dragon With a Big Nose  by Kathy Henderson

This collection explores a range and breadth of forms and styles, taking them from the familiar comfort of rhythm and rhymes to the introduction of more sophisticated poetic devices such as assonance, imagery and metaphor. It’s out of print, so you’ll need to track down a preloved copy!

Things You Find in a Poet’s Beard  by AF Harrold

A perfect KS2 poems collection with a mix of themes and poetic forms. The poems use clever humour and wordplay as well as evocative imagery, which enables children to visualise and feel like they are in the moments being described.

Rhythm and Poetry  by Karl Nova

Hip hop artist Karl’s poems are infused with the lyrical rhythms of his music, which makes them irresistible for children to want to perform, but this is also a book that could inspire many to take up writing themselves.

The Rainmaker Danced  by John Agard

These rich and lyrical poems, set against striking illustrations by Satoshi Kitamura, invite us to consider our own impact on each other and the environment and to question, challenge and reflect. In the current climate of fake news, poetry such as this is essential in every classroom.

Browse more ideas in our  National Poetry Day round-up.

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    This lovely metaphor and simile translation activity gives KS2 learners a great example of how figurative language is used in poetry. For the first task, they must draw illustrations of metaphors from the poem, and then for the second, they have to write the metaphor in plain English. This is a fantastic way of helping children to unpack the meaning of metaphors in order to understand how ...

  9. 10 of the Best Poems about Journeys

    It is mentioned that they are fleeing England because of 'prelates' rage', namely religious persecution - so 'Bermudas' is a poem about undertaking a difficult journey to find a new place where a community of people can start afresh. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The bright-eyed Mariner.

  10. Poetry Packs, Activities and Games

    Making your KS2 poetry lessons fun is much easier than you think - just take a moment to explore this range of poetry games and activities. Here, you'll find exciting activity sheets, morning activities, ideas for outdoor learning and much more. All it takes is some fantastic ideas to make teaching poetry at KS2 fun.

  11. Journey

    The winner of the prestigious Caldecott Honor, and described by the New York Times as 'a masterwork', Aaron Becker's stunning, wordless picture book debut about self-determination and unexpected friendship follows a little girl who draws a magic door on her bedroom wall. Through it she escapes into a world where wonder, adventure and danger abound.

  12. 'River journey' poem

    Add to My Folder. Join Scholastic Resource Bank: Primary from just £15.00. a year to access thousands of KS1 and KS2 resources. Investigate the journey of a river through a poem. Use the 'Water cycle' resources to explore further.

  13. KS2 My Longest Journey Poem Differentiated Worksheet

    The poem includes a range of figurative language features to discuss with your class. Your students may also enjoy this Rainforest Poems KS2 Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity. You can also assess what your pupils have learnt with this Year 4 Poetry Comprehension Assessment. The above video may be from a third-party source.

  14. KS2 poems

    Nature poem templates. This KS2 poems download from poet Zaro Weil features poetry examples, poem templates and teacher notes to help you get your class having lots of imaginative fun with nature and poetry. One deadly breath. blasts from the giant. suddenly he is screeching to a halt.

  15. KS2 My Longest Journey Poem Poem (teacher made)

    KS2 My Longest Journey Poem. 1 review. Writing Poetry Classic Poems. How does this resource excite and engage children's learning? Inspire your students to write wonderfully wintry poems with this original seasonal example featuring different types of figurative language. Accompanying activities are also available.

  16. Poetry Comprehension KS2

    Take a look through Twinkl's extensive Poetry Comprehension (KS2) library to find the perfect poetry comprehension activity for your English lessons. Recently Viewed and Downloaded › ... KS2 My Longest Journey Poem Differentiated Worksheet. 4.7 (11 reviews) Rainforest Poems KS2 Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity. 4.8 (28 reviews)

  17. PDF Rivers of life

    The ideas in the poem might then turn into a piece of prose using a simple formula like the colour-coded example below to scaffold children who need it. The formula is explained beneath the poem. Dreamily, Sarah gazed at the river. Rays of sunlight pierced through the cluster of trees that leant across, almost tickling the surface. Amongst the ...

  18. Poetry Packs, Activities and Games

    Making your KS2 poetry lessons fun is much easier than you think - just take a moment to explore this range of poetry games and activities. Here, you'll find exciting activity sheets, morning activities, ideas for outdoor learning and much more. All it takes is some fantastic ideas to make teaching poetry at KS2 fun.

  19. BY WAY OF YOUR HEART is a Poetic Journey through Romance,

    Since then, poetry has been her space to process love, heartbreak, and healing. She has been married for twenty-four years, has two dogs, and finds solace in the simple pleasures of life.

  20. KS2 Winter Poem Pack

    This winter poem KS2 includes a wide variety of poems based around the theme of winter. For instance, children can read about a person's reluctant journey through the snow in My Longest Journey, or even about a lovely winter scene in Winter Wonderland. These poems would be great when encouraging children to recite poetry and learn poems by heart.

  21. River Poems KS2

    This River Poems Reading Comprehension Activity is an excellent resource to develop KS2 pupils' understanding of poetry and their comprehension skills. In this pack, you'll find a selection of three wonderful river-themed poems: 'The River', 'The Raging River' and 'Polluted'. It also comes with three sets of differentiated questions and answers for children of different ability ...