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Two Little Dickey Birds
Poem card
This rhyme explores repetition and alliteration. Why did Peter and Paul fly away? (Part of Set 2.)
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Wee Willie Winkie
Poem card
Wee Willie Winkie goes around the town telling children that it’s time to go to sleep. Children may need to have “nightgown”, “tapping”, and “crying through the lock” explained. (Part of Set 1.)
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Pat-a-cake Pat-a-cake
Poem card
This poem is very useful when teaching alphabet knowledge, in particular of children’s names. Change the letter ‘B’ according to the names of your students. (Part of Set 1.)
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
Poem card
A well-known favourite that most new entrants will know from pre-school and be able to sing along with from their first day at school. There are some old-fashioned words to discuss – “dame”, “lane”, “master”, and “sir”. (Part of Set 1.)
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Splish Splash
A compilation of favourite poems from the Junior Journal.
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Acrostic Poem
by Tim Upperton
illustrated by Simon Waterfield
In this poem about writing poetry, Tim Upperton subverts the form of the acrostic to show what can happen when the words and ideas are let free. This is a poem that speaks to students’ experiences as readers and writers of poetry and makes it fun.
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Sound Cards Kākano | Seed
A set of 27 sound cards, one for each of the graphemes in the Kākano phase of the Scope and Sequence.
Teachers can use the Ready to Read Phonics Plus Kākano Sound Cards to introduce sounds and letters to children as they read the Ready to Read Phonics Plus small books.
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Big Blue Whale
By Kathryn Apel
Illustration by Elaine Nicholas
“The big blue whale is not a fish. You couldn’t keep it in a dish.” So begins this playful rhyming poem, which explores simple truths about whales in a fantastical way.
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Spider
by Alan Bagnall
This humorous, easy-to-read poem describes a child’s dilemma upon finding a spider in the bath. It’s likely to provoke a strong response from students as they make connections to their own experiences of spiders, but it also requires them to infer in order to fully understand the child’s problem.
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Lost Again!
by Kylee Goodwin
In this humorous poem, Mum has lost her keys again, and she and the children are searching for them in increasingly unlikely places. Eventually, Dad joins the search and finds the keys hanging on the hook, just where they should be!
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