PDF featuring original poem and activity ideas, plus Powerpoint featuring the poem to read as a class
KS2
Years 3-6
We’ve packed this Pie Corbett poetry lesson plan with playful activities to help your KS2 class celebrate the power of imagination.
The download features Pie’s original poem, ‘What are You?’, as well as accompanying activities that he has created for your class.
Ask students to read through the poem thoroughly, asking themselves questions like which idea:
- is the most surprising and why?
- interests you the most and why?
- is the cleverest/funniest and why?
- is the hardest?
Pupils can then write a short paragraph illustrating their favourite verse, perform the poem as a class, explore techniques in it that they can use in their own writing and much more.
The dowload contains
- Full poem and activities PDF
- PowerPoint presentation of the poem to read as a class
More Pie Corbett poetry resources
Encourage your KS2 pupils to express themselves and write creatively with this pack of Pie Corbett poetry. Each resource contains an original poem PowerPoint and a whole host of ideas to try in class. Browse even more ideas and resources for teaching KS2 poems.
Pie Corbett is an education consultant, poet and author known for Talk for Writing. Find out more at and check out his books at talkforwritingshop.com.
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