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Introduction
Welcome to Poetryline
This is the home of CLPE's poetry resources including award winning poets performing their poems and a wealth of teaching resources.
CLPE is the National Poetry Centre for Primary Schools
Poetry is a fundamental element in the development of children’s literacy. This site holds an extensive bank of teaching sequences, videos of poet performances and interviews and a wealth of resources to support the quality teaching of poetry in the classroom. We are a National Poetry Day Partner and have developed specific resources to help you celebrate this day in your school.
For more insight into CLPE's work with poetry view our video Poetry at CLPE, with poets Joseph Coelho, Karl Nova, CLPE Chief Executive Louise Johns-Shepherd and Learning Programme Leader Charlotte Hacking.
Use our free poetry teaching resources
Poets
Introduce children to poets through film
Find out more about favourite children’s poets. Read their poems, watch their performance films and listen to their interviews. Enjoy well-loved poets and discover new ones through our resources.
Poems
Discover hundreds of poems
Listen to award winning poets read their poems out loud with your children. Inspire them with classic favourites and introduce them to new poems from a variety of books and verse novels.
Teaching Sequences
Explore poetry in depth
Use our free teaching sequences to guide your planning and use the teaching approaches to explore poetry in depth; enhancing reading comprehension and providing meaningful contexts and purposes for writing and performance.
National Poetry Day Anthology - Poetry for a Change
Nursery, Reception or Year 1 – Zim Zam Zoom! by James Carter
Years 2/3/4 - Where Zebras Go by Sue Hardy-Dawson
Years 4/5 – Rhythm and Poetry by Karl Nova
Years 5/6 - Wonderland: Alice in Poetry, edited by Michaela Morgan
Create a Poetry Classroom
We have created extensive materials to support best practice in the teaching of poetry supporting teachers and children to become confident poetry readers and writers
CLPE Poetry Award (CLiPPA)
We run a school’s shadowing scheme alongside CLiPPA, which celebrates outstanding poetry published for children. Use the films of the shortlisted poets performing and the specially written teaching sequences for their books to inspire your children
Teaching Sequences for CLiPPA 2018 shortlisted poets
Reading for Pleasure
We work to emphasise the importance of books and literature in enabling children to become confident, happy and enthusiastic readers and writers. Discover our range of Reading for Pleasure resources
CPD
All CLPE training is designed to help you develop practical approaches to literacy learning that inspire a love of reading and writing for all children. Teachers attending our training receive strategies and resources that can be put into immediate practise and support EYFS 2014 and NC 2014.
Upcoming Training
Developing Early Readers in KS2
Monday, 29 April 2019 - 10:00am
Chartered College Teacher Twilight - The Power of Pictures: Changing practice through research
Wednesday, 1 May 2019 - 5:30pm
Closing the Vocabulary Gap in the Early Years - London
Tuesday, 7 May 2019 - 9:30am
Planning Creatively Around Texts in EYFS
Wednesday, 8 May 2019 - 10:00am
Closing the Vocabulary Gap in the Early Years - Wakefield
Thursday, 9 May 2019 - 9:30am