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Author: 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Amazing Animal Poems' - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Squeak-Squawk-Roar-Amazing-Animal/dp/1915659558/ref=sr_1_1?crid=47TAAYCNKFE6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1qPKNR7Vxfhy6bDj6uskSl09zQU3A4epr2_kV5MA2aQ.PQ-cHwE7SPhIxZik7UCA7sD949D48U0AMrdH_nLbn84&dib_tag=se&keywords=squeak+squawk+roar&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1733264892&sprefix=%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1 Children's poet: website: katewilliamspoet.com
Weather Poetry Bundle - KS1
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Weather Poetry Bundle - KS1

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Contents: Snow Writing - easier/harder, Sun + Cloud picture-poem sheets (simple), Clouds Poetry frame (with similes), guided, Sun + Cloud rhymes, Rain rhymes + picture-writing sheet, guided. Designed to engage young children, develop creativity + language, + nurture sense of rhythm, rhyme + poetry.
SPACE POETRY
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SPACE POETRY

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5 space writing activities and support resources: funny rhymes, acrostics, slotting words into a space picture, space rhyme bank, and a simile poem to write - IN a planet! Guide notes provided where handy. Approx. Y3-6.
Seaside Reading + Writing
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Seaside Reading + Writing

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7 activities (1 free) combining seaside and literacy, featuring shells, sea and under the sea. The attractive, illustrated sheets offer phonics and reading practice, creative writing opportunities and environmental learning. Shells and fish sheets have accompanying suggestions for teachers.
Our School - Fun Creative Writing Sheets, Illustrated
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Our School - Fun Creative Writing Sheets, Illustrated

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Celebrating the school experience, these 4 expressive writing sheets address school activities, dinners, sounds and even pond (real or imaginary), with lively illustrations to spur and inspire. Levels vary, with sheets for Yrs 1-4 approx. overall. Great opportunities for description, imagery, sound-words and also personal thoughts and feelings. The bundle supports both literacy and personal development.
Rhyme Banks + Frames - Mixed Topics
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Rhyme Banks + Frames - Mixed Topics

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Rhyme fun! 4 topic-based rhyme banks + a rhyming couplet frame sheet - featuring aliens, dragons, castle characters and more. These rhymes-made-easy will spur your whole class into action, getting them waxing lyrical before they know it, and sharpening up their literacy skills all-round.
Dragons! Rhymes, Simple Writing/Colouring Sheets + 6 Crazy Pictures
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Dragons! Rhymes, Simple Writing/Colouring Sheets + 6 Crazy Pictures

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Dragons are fun, exciting and versatile - open to any interpretation while offering thrilling and fascinating features. This bundle of activities and imagination-firing colour-sketches will inspire your children’s creativity, while supporting phonics, language and literacy development - not to mention colour clarifying and rhyme, rhythm and performance development. Recommended for Reception + KS1, while the rhymes and pictures will appeal to older children too.
Castle-Themed Literacy Activities + Inspiration - KS1
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Castle-Themed Literacy Activities + Inspiration - KS1

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Bring castles to life for your Infants with this varied mix of fun rhymes, thought-provoking picture-poems, simple reading challenge (on a castle scene) and an atmospheric castle picture (also available separately). The 3 rhymes come with guidance and embellishment tips. The picture-poems comprise a castle picture with lines for describing words, and 3 graded versions of 'In the castle lives a … ghost, king, and other characters. Doing Dragons at all? This demo video might be handy? https://youtu.be/1NLutDY2zVQ
10 Colour Rhymes to celebrate the main colours and tones
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10 Colour Rhymes to celebrate the main colours and tones

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Learning colours is easy with fun, snappy, rhymes, referencing familiar topics. Red, blue, green, pink, yellow, orange, purple, silver, gold, black and white are all highlighted in these rhymes, with grey featuring too. An extra rhyme - Colourful Dragons - brings a whole bunch of them together. They can be read aloud, chanted and clapped together, enacted, discussed and added to. Ideal for Early Years - Year 2, but also fun and thought-provoking for KS2 pupils. Watch/listen to ‘What Colour am I?’ https://youtu.be/JGKvOUDyXmk + ‘Rainbow Glow’ - https://youtu.be/qAq3CfoRaaE
Bonanza of Creepy Crawly Rhymes + Picture-Poem Frames (7 activities), guided
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Bonanza of Creepy Crawly Rhymes + Picture-Poem Frames (7 activities), guided

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This mini-beast feast comprises 10 sheets, including 3 guidance sheets. These contain 3 rhymes to clap, enact, word-swap, perform, sing, inspire writing - Butterfly, Ladybird, Spider respectively - guidance provided below each rhyme; also 4 picture poems to write & colour: Butterfly, Ladybird, Spider x 2 (guidance notes separate). These provide rounded learning experience on mini-beasts, also supporting Literacy and more.
KS1 Simple Reading Challenges (4)
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KS1 Simple Reading Challenges (4)

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Four activities for younger/less confident KS1 readers, with adult support. Contents: 2 fun word games; one seaside picture with describing words spread over; 1 colourfully decorated reading test with simple words using the whole alphabet. Handy for pre-test practice and assessment, and as year-round reading spurs.
Rhymes Galore (15) for EY/KS1
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Rhymes Galore (15) for EY/KS1

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Rhymes to chant, clap, act out and develop, promoting many learning areas: Literacy, Understanding the World, Communication Language, Expressive Arts & Design and Physical Development. Topics: mini-beasts, seaside, stars, castles, busy street, school, big & small, park and windy day. Guidance notes included for all. Save 50% with this bundle!
Rhyme Bundle for Young Children
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Rhyme Bundle for Young Children

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8 lively, punchy rhymes to clap, chant, add to and act out. (One of the 7 sheets contains 2 rhymes.) Tips and ideas for use are provided in ‘Notes’ under each one. These rhymes support all-round literacy, including aspects of poetry, vocabulary, speaking and listening, drama, expressive presentation and creativity. They also support mental wellbeing and confidence, being reassuringly punchy, repetitive, meaningful and fun, with upbeat messages. Their capacity for enacting supports physical education and fitness. The rhymes will also enhance topic work on: minibeasts, our world, space, oceans, the local environment, transport, sound, movement, colour, weather and more.
Wild WoodsWriting Bundle
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Wild WoodsWriting Bundle

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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.
SPRING ANIMALS Writing Sheet Stack, KS1
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SPRING ANIMALS Writing Sheet Stack, KS1

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Springtime writing sheets galore! Creative writing will blossom with all these simple, attractively illustrated frames. Robins, rabbits, squirrels, butterflies, frogs and more, with spring meadows and woods to write about too. Supports seasonal work, literacy, creativity and expressive arts and design at EY + KS1 levels.
11 PHONICS sheets to read, write + colour (short vowels)
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11 PHONICS sheets to read, write + colour (short vowels)

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Phonics a, e, i and o are highlighted in this big bundle of over-writing sheets. Each one presents one, two or a few simple words incorporating a short vowel, with an attractive illustration, mostly outlined for colouring. The words are presented in pastel shades for writing over. Words featured: cat, hat, bat, fox, box, dots, sots, dog, frog, big, pig, pigs, red, pen, hen, hens, egg, eggs. If this is useful, see my long vowel reading cards too.
Dragon + Castle Creative Writing - R + KS1
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Dragon + Castle Creative Writing - R + KS1

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Celebrate St David’s Day with Welsh dragons, castles or both, with this array of attractive, child-friendly picture-poems, stretching vocabulary and ideas simultaneously. A dragon’s menu (with alliteration), castle features and characters, castle treasure and who knows what sort of dragons (the children can decide) feature in these sheets, some with 3 grades of difficulty. Successfully tried and tested.
Writing in Pictures (KS1)
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Writing in Pictures (KS1)

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Writing inside a picture is great fun, and brings the words alive for children. This stack of picture-writing frames features clouds, stars, ladybirds, snakes, castles, leaves and seasides, some with graded variations. This bundle will inspire imagination, fire enthusiasm, develop skills and boost confidence.
10 Pubished Poems for Children (by this author)
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10 Pubished Poems for Children (by this author)

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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.
Simple Words
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Simple Words

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Ten fun, simple reading and writing sheets with pictures. Topics - from traffic lights to ships and sharks, from dogs to dragons, from cooking to Lego, and more! Supports phonics and word recognition, handwriting, spelling, and motivation for learning. Brings meaning to the written word for young children.