Back
This is a poetry anthology for schools to support the English Framework and teach literacy through poetry. It covers Key Stage 3 requirements and prepares students for the Key Stage 4 emphasis on poetry. More than an anthology, it includes background information on poets and poems, illustrations and activities. The main features of the book include:
Short poems that are widely different in form for the students to study and discuss.
Well-
Poems written by children; thematic contrasts, showing different attitudes to diverse topics.
National Curriculum attainment is listed on a one-
Activities are divided by word level, sentence level and text level, with a literacy focus given for each poem and/or groups of poems and English Framework matches highlighted. The activities for each focus on a particular aspect of the poem's theme or technique so that the students gain a clear grasp of what skill they are learning as they study each poem. Written, reading and speaking and listening activities are clearly marked. Suggestions are provided for reading poems linked by theme, author or form.
This volume covers the whole of Key Stage 3, there should be progression from one unit to the next. The book also looks forward to Key Stage 4 and prepares students for GCSE work on poetry.
JOURNEYS
Below are three of over fifty modern and traditional poems used throughout the text in this book.
Wolfman by Wendy Bardsley from Unit 7
Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson from Unit 11
The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth from Unit 18
© Wendy Bardsley 2014
Poems from this volume
