Poetry & literacy resources by published children's poet.
I also lead poetry workshops for UK primary schools.
Website: katewilliamspoet.com
Book news - Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Animal poems - out 9th January '25. Publisher: Otter-Barry Books.
Poetry & literacy resources by published children's poet.
I also lead poetry workshops for UK primary schools.
Website: katewilliamspoet.com
Book news - Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Animal poems - out 9th January '25. Publisher: Otter-Barry Books.
Summer oak tree in full bloom, to colour in. The picture includes nesting birds, busy squirrels, a butterfly, two ladybirds and a tiny, dangling spider. This cheerful picture also includes sun, clouds, distant birds, flowers, grass, and falling oak leaves. An educational and enjoyable colouring activity for young children.
2 FIREWORKS frames - simpler and more complex versions.
These popular sheets call for action words - whizzing, booming, sparkling, crackling? - and more, for fireworks.
Both sheets also invite describing words for the night sky - dark, misty, moonlit, mysterious, pitch black, spooky, foggy, windy, chilly, cave-dark??
The harder version also requires 3 similes, but the structure is clear, with a repeated pattern running through, and structured phrases with gaps to fill.
Supports: seasons, celebrations, literacy, poetry, creativity, vocabulary, colour, night skies and firework features.
‘Fireworks’ - an exciting firework poem by this author - published children’s poet - on firework photo background.
Celebrates the thrills, beauties, sounds and wonders of fireworks.
Read out to your class, invite variations, and set as format for poetry-writing challenge.
See my many other FIREWORKS reading/writing/colouringhttps://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=23864398&q=fireworks&shop=katewilliams_poetry, +support video included with this download.
Squeak, howl, roar, rustle - there are countless exciting jungle sounds to pick from, and more to invent, when filling the lines on this lively picture. Hints of creatures and vegetation are sketched around the 12 writing lines to inspire ideas and add to the fun. Start by thinking up some jungle creatures and plant types together and making their sounds, perhaps listing a few, and encourage made-up words and sounded-out spellings. More examples: chatter, snap, hum, buzz, shriek, flap, yelp, crash, hiss, splash, croak, tweet, swish, crunch, bark. The sheet can then be coloured and displayed, or used as a stepping-stone to further creative writing, or enacted as a performance, or brought to life with percussion and musical instruments, or just used to celebrate a related topic.
8 exciting writing sheets to get your whole KS2 class writing for sheer fun! Some are guided, some come with graded variations, all are illustrated and child-friendly. Assorted topics, including - Space, Dinosaurs, Jungles, Midnight Woods, Exploring, Inventing a Vehicle, and funny ones - Keep Fit Activities for Martians + Menu for Sea Monsters. Bargain Bundle!
**What jungle creature am I? ** this poem asks, with prompts for all sorts of clues and poetic techniques.
Children forget they’re writing poems when there’s an exciting, exotic riddle to present and a whole class of others to guess. Jungle offers a wealth of possibilities, not just for creatures, but for creativity too. There’s also an anagram riddle suggestion below, to write on the sheet. Best for Yrs 3-6.
Massive bundle of beautiful, inspiring, creative writing & colouring sheets, all environment-focused, with meadows, woods, jungles, and seaside. A few global warming poems thrown in too.
Age recommendation: Infants-Lower Juniors; climate poems for Juniors.
Less than half price!
Seaside writing + colouring sheet for young children. Starter phrase - "The sea is " with wavy line for writing on, and a spare line below for writing or drawing. Lots of seaside items to colour in - fish, boat, bucket and spade, sandcastle, waves, shells, sand, seaweed, etc.
Teaches about seaside flora and fauna, oceans and boats, while developing expressive writing, creativity, active vocabulary use, and fine motor skills.
See my Seaside Writing, simple, mid and harder levels, for differentiation.
These 10 rhythmic, rhyme-rich, accessible poems address nature, animals, and outdoor atmospheres, offering inspiration for creative writing and attractive introductions to poetry. Suitable for KS2, and some also for KS1.
Topics include clouds, trees, rivers, weather, seaside, day and night, community spirit, animals and birds.
Ten sheets, some containing two poems. Each sheet contains an illustration; some have coloured backgrounds too, as appropriate.
I’ve used a number of these poems in my poetry workshops to spur ideas.
Two of my poems feature on this one-page resource:
‘Can you hear the treetops?’ and ‘Our River’,
both published in The School Magazine, Australia.
The first questions the voices of the treetops and what they might be saying to each other; the second is a metaphor poem, depicting a river in its different moods. Both are easy to understand, yet mind-stretching.
The poems support nature study, poetry appreciation, creative writing and language development. Both are calm and cheerful, yet intriguing.
This is a simple, illustrated frame for poetry-writing (or general descriptive writing), for beginner-writers, with jungle animals as the theme.
There are three short sentences, referring to different jungle animals (tiger, money and snake), each with a gap for a one-word description. Below is a simile to finish: 'The jungle is as green as _ '.
The activity calls for some preparation, such as learning about jungles and their inhabitants and sharing associated ideas and descriptive language. It supports literacy development, especially in creative writing, also providing a window on the wider world and natural environments - appropriate to the EYFS curricular learning area of Understanding the World. The opportunities for colouring support Expressive Arts & Design, and children will also develop other skills, such as pencil control and handwriting.
This resource comprises two Jungle poetry frames and two Snake picture-poems, for Yrs 1 and 2 respectively. The Jungle sheets are lavishly illustrated, with gaps in verse lines for descriptive words for animals and similes for jungle. In the Snake picture-poem frames, children can write describing words inside their looping snake. I’ve used all 4 sheets in my workshops with rewarding results.
Black and white PDF files.
Literacy, Animals, Environment, Nature and Seasons supported in these 3 differentiated poetry writing sheets. Wild creatures abound in the lively, illustrated creative writing frames. The easier, mid-level and harder versions all invite describing words for a robin and another creature for writers to choose, harder versions eliciting more - an action word for squirrels, describing words for the trees and, in the hardest, a simile. This topic-rich resource fires imagination and creativity while developing writing skills. Successfully tested.
Children love animals, so your emergent and newly independent writers will love thinking up words to describe robins and more here. The bundle contains 3 versions of the same basic writing frame, ‘simple’ being the lowest level, and 'mid-level- the hardest. See my 'hardest version for your able or older pupils. There’s plenty to colour here too. The resource supports work on animals, woods, environment, nature and seasons, as well as firing creativity and developing writing skills.
This simple, illustrated writing sheet is fun to write and colour in. The text invites a describing word for a robin, and another woodland animal of the writer’s choice, with a describing word. The various creatures illustrated, and the forest background, will provide young children with an incite into life inside a wood. The resource promotes writing, reading, colouring skills, and understanding and appreciation of the natural environment. Try my harder version too.
This great heap of writing and colouring sheets on woodland animal themes will keep your EYFS and KS1 children busy and happy for weeks, learning about nature and developing their literacy and fine motor skills as they go. They’ll also develop colour sense, creative expression and respect for the natural world. Contents: 9 styles of writing sheet, 2 with graded variations, and 4 colouring-only sheets. Animals featured: squirrel, hedgehog, robin, rabbit, frog, butterfly, spider, ladybird, others also appearing in illustrations.
Nature poems to read and write, with trees and woods as central theme; also colouring sheets - trees and woodland animals, and a midnight wood picture for inspiration. A big bunch of green environment activities - and big savings!
This 4-sheet resource for Yr 3 poetry will enthuse your class. The fascinating wild woods theme will trigger ideas and the focus on woodland animals and how they move will bring action and narrative to the activity. The clear, supportive writing-frames and their lively illustrations will motivate even reluctant writers to have a go. The recourse comprises: a warm-up, brainstorming sheet inviting words to describe woods (Wild woods can be…); the poetry frame itself (In the ___ Forest), and a 2-page GUIDE sheet, with examples and suggestions for preparation and approach. Recommended for Yr 3 (ages 7-8) and less confident older students.
4 wild wood / forest poetry frames, plus brainstorming sheet and word bank with simile ideas included, for Juniors, Ys 3-5 approx. Poetry frames include a fun riddle to compose, plus poems about woodland animal movements, squirrels in trees, spooky, midnight woods and a simile poem.
Jungles and rain forests are thrilling to write about, and this words-in-a-picture approach adds in fun and meaning for primary aged pupils. A gap-free version of the jungle photo is included for inspiration and information, plus a Word Bank, including similes, for teacher reference - handy for examples and prompts.
The resource supports poetry, vocabulary-building, writing fluency and confidence-building, as well as enhancing work on jungles, rain forests and related topics.
Others in this series (Word Gaps in a Picture): Butterfly, Meadow (free), Dragons, Sea, Under the Sea and Fireworks, plus more to come.
See my many other Jungle and Rain forest resources - rhymes, poetry frames and more.