Our ‘Opening Doors’ schools love creating pioneering work to unpack the wonder of poetry: past, present and across the globe. To make poetry count we suggest placing ongoing poetry work at the centre of English and learning about language, writing and literature. Download and keep this FREE poster by the Opening Doors team or use for your classroom/staffroom wall

This is a FREE resource by one of the authors of the Opening Doors series, Leah Crawford, to help you celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday in April.

This is a FREE resource by Bob Cox to help you celebrate World Poetry Day 2024. Poetry allows children’s creativity to flourish in more ways than one. This is a day that helps celebrate creativity in writing. Use this lesson plan to explore Kate Wakeling’s poem, ‘My Treasures’ and encourage your pupils to write their own poetry.

National Poetry Day – an annual mass celebration which encourages everyone to make, experience and share poetry with family and friends! This extract from 𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘿𝙤𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙁𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙚: 𝙄𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 by Bob Cox examines ‘Snake’ by Emily Dickinson. It outlines several lesson activities you can try in your classroom to enhance teaching and learning and enjoyment of poetry. You can find out more about this title on the Crown House Publishing website!

Zoe Enser and Helen Ralston present this free downloadable lesson plan to help teachers explore Shakespeare in the classroom with pupils of any age. Bringing Forth the Bard links together the golden threads which run through Shakespeare’s work and highlights how teachers can best explore these with students. Zoe Enser equips busy teachers with the core knowledge that will enable them to make links between the themes, characters, language and allusions in Shakespeare’s oeuvre. This lesson plan is just one of the examples from Zoe Enser’s book, 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙙: 𝘼 𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢. You can discover this title on the Crown House Publishing website!