The Works Key Stage 1

A fantastic book of really great poems for Reception and Year 1 and 2. It contains poems which cover every form and theme of the Literacy Strategy, an index of poem types, advice for writing poems, advice for reading poems, lots of poetry activities and some workshop ideas and lesson plans.

Packed with brilliant poems that will delight any reader, this collection features patterned poems and rhymes, playground rhymes, action rhymes and songs, nonsense rhymes and funny poems, poems from different cultures, riddles and tongue-twisters, skipping rhymes and clapping rhymes, counting rhymes, story poems, nursery rhymes and traditional rhymes, chants and poems to perform, poems about everyday life and imaginary worlds, and poems on common themes.