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Category Archives: National Poetry Day 2018

My Poem, Alaskan Wood Frog, for #NationalPoetryDay, Change

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National Poetry Day Book: Poetry for a Change, Poem Plus Teaching Notes

This wonderful book(Otrer-Barry) is full of poems by the National Poetry Ambassadors on the theme for National Poetry Day of Change. I’m one of them, and my poem is below with the teachers’ notes which were prepared by the WONDERFUL CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education). I really recommend this book, the poems are …

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The National Poetry Day Anthology – Poetry for a Change #NationalPoetryDay

Do you have one of these yet? EVERYONE needs one! Packed with poems from the National Poetry Day Ambassadors (I am one) and with poems chosen by the Ambassadors to complement their own. And NPD have launched a teaching sequence sharing how schools can use the NPD anthology across the primary years. Download it for …

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National Poetry Day is 4th of October!

Here’s a new poem on the theme of change, the theme for National Poetry Day 2018.   The Butterfly’s Lament   Why, oh why, said the butterfly did I have to change what I am?   I loved being a caterpillar doing things caterpillars can   chewing leaves chewing leaves, chewing leaves is all I’ve …

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