POETRY CONTEST

In honour of National Poetry Day on 3 October, we've put together some of our favourite resources for teaching poetry. Use them to challenge your classes to write poems based on this year's theme: 'Water, water, everywhere!'

We have also compiled a top 10 list of speaking and listening resources to help your students debate, argue and discuss in a structured and meaningful way.

There's also reaction to Channel 4's Educating Yorkshire from TES behaviour adviser Tom Bennett.

Resources
Resources for teaching poetry

Forms of poetry: Haiku
Introduce your students to the haiku form and help them count syllables and create their own haiku poems.

Poetry techniques, forms and features
These detailed notes provide an excellent summary of poetic forms and techniques, from personification and alliteration to tanka and limerick.

Firework by Katy Perry: Poetic devices worksheet
Explore the idea of lyric poetry with this resource that asks students to spot the poetic devices in the lyrics of Firework by Katy Perry.

Unseen poetry exercises
Get students into the habit of analysing unseen texts with this series of exercises designed to practise responding to new poems.

Compare and contrast poetry from different cultures
This simple worksheet offers a great format for comparing poems, in this case Island Man by Grace Nicholls and The Fringe of the Sea by A. L. Hendricks, and could be adapted to suit different texts.