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Poetry Teaching Resources

Schemes of work in pdf format

B and D Publishing specialise in poetry resources with the following resource packs available:


All poetry packs contain the full copyright free text of the poems with work to do on the poems.   

Three Narrative Poems and Three More Narrative Poems

Three Narrative Poems contains the full, copyright free text of the three poems – The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. 

Three More Narrative Poems contains the full, copyright free text of John Gilpin by William Cowper, Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti and Morte D’Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. There are notes and differentiated worksheets on each poem. Suitable for KS3 and/or KS4 students.

For even better value, the Narrative Poems series can also be purchased as a bundle with the Language for Literature series: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-and-narrative-poems-bundle-12156125

Forty Favourite Poems 
Series One & Series Two

Two packs of poetry, each containing 40 poems that are essential reading for all lovers of English literature. Series One is suitable for use with students at KS3 and Series Two for students working at KS4 and beyond. The copyright free text plus work on each poem is provided.  Forty Favourite Poems Series One includes: The Charge of the Light Brigade, Sea Fever, The Eagle, Silver, Inversnaid, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Snake, Cargoes, Sarah Byng and many more. Forty Favourite Poems Series Two includes: To a Mouse, A Case of Murder, Toads, Dover Beach, Stop All The Clocks, Ode to Autumn, The Thought Fox, If, Ozymandias, Leisure, Binsey Poplars and many more. 

For even better value, the Forty Favourite Poems series can be purchased as a bundle with the Language for Literature series: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-and-poetry-bundle-ks3-and-ks4-11930332

Free sample pages from all of our schemes of work are also available from the TES resources site. The regular licence enables you to use the resource with your own students. Copy, edit and provide the material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study/exam revision. The school licence allows you also to share the resource with colleagues at your school.