Tes Primary: Christmas poetry

Christmas poetry resources for the primary classroom

Tes Resources Team

Twas the night before Christmas poetry resources for primary pupils

Have some festive fun exploring and creating Christmas poetry with your primary pupils

As we enter December, teachers often start to think about how learning can be themed around Christmas and what work their class can produce for wonderful winter displays. Writing some Christmas poetry is a great way to teach primary classes about the festive season, whilst also producing beautiful written work to be proud of. With that in mind, we’ve brought together a hand-picked collection of lessons and activities to help you during this busy period.

Christmas
KS2History

Christmas

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Looking for something a bit different for your Christmas poetry activity? This Christmas Kennings lesson will make a fun English activity ready for Christmas time and the resulting pieces of work create a fab festive classroom display! In this Christmas literacy lesson, pupils will learn about wh...
Christmas acrostic poem templates
tesSpecialNeeds

Christmas acrostic poem templates

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A set of 4 Christmas themed acrostic poem activity worksheets. Each worksheet includes a clear font and images that can be coloured in or decorated by your pupils. Templates included cover the words Christmas, presents, angels and stars.
Whole English lesson - Christmas Senses Poetry
AcornTeachingResources

Whole English lesson - Christmas Senses Poetry

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Another theme from our Senses Poem lessons. Our Autumn Senses poem was featured by TES in their blog and received a 5* review. All reviews for our paid products have been 5/5 (As of December 7th 2016). A whole lesson to support students in planning and composing their own Christmas senses p...
Rewriting the Twelve Days of Christmas
carolebeachill

Rewriting the Twelve Days of Christmas

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A Powerpoint with some background information on the twelve days of Christmas and the lyrics to the well known song. Ends with an example of a how a new version of the song might begin. Children can then write their own.
Acrostic Poems for Christmas. Poem study + creative writing.
gwynethhulse

Acrostic Poems for Christmas. Poem study + creative writing.

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Introduce students to acrostic poetry with this Christmas poetry lesson. Acrostic poems are simple, achievable and perfect for a creative writing project at any level. Included: - teacher instructions - example of an acrostic poem *Santa* - brainstorm or planning page - x6 templates for writing acr...
Christmas Stories & Poetry Templates
pimentm

Christmas Stories & Poetry Templates

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Just in time to start thinking about Christmas! Included are templates that could be used for stories and poetry. Also included are ready to use acrostic, diamante and cinquain templates. Students can colo(u)r the fun template frames as well! **Once completed, templates could be fra...
Christmas Story and Poetry starters
teachercellar

Christmas Story and Poetry starters

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Looking for something original and different then this 20 page coloured PDF file and powerpoint is for you! It is suitable for Key Stage 1 and 2 and can be adapted for SEN. Each page is the opening of a Christmas story or a Christmas Poem. Topics included are Santa, elves, reindeer, furry animals,...