60 fun and inclusive poem videos to develop
EYFS/Year 1 speech, language, and vocabulary skills:
Develop outstanding EYFS/Year 1 speech, language, and vocabulary skills through poetry
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Are you ready to bring the joy of poetry into your classroom this year?
Loved by EYFS practitioners across the UK, these poems and resources will inspire ALL your children to enhance their speech by reciting in a group, improve their communication and language by discovering new words, and boost their self-confidence by performing with their peers.
Don’t delay! Use code GiftOfAPoem to get £5 off. Valid until the end of September 2024.
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“This is one of the best resources I have purchased in my 25 years of teaching. The impact on children’s oracy and performance skills is immediate. We love sharing the poems with parents through our online home learning platform and in turn they tell us how much their child loves to recite the poems at home.”
Lisa Killelay
Nursery Teacher
Raddlebarn Primary and Nursery
“The Poetry Basket is a great way to introduce new poems to the learners. They love listening to the poems, watching the videos and learning the actions.”
Natalee Doran
Westhaven School
Class Teacher
“A brilliant way to enhance children’s language and literacy skills. I would recommend to any setting I visit. The impact is always visible.”
Lindsay Phelps
Education Consultant
Future Leadership Solutions
“We absolutely love poetry basket! The children thoroughly enjoy learning a new poem each week. They especially enjoyed Trisha’s zoom call to our school!”
Kirsty Spooner
EYFS Teacher
Cecil Gowing Infant School
“We have been using the Poetry Basket for quite a while. One of most favourite things is spotting our EYFS children act out their favourite poems with actions and expression to their friends. What a wonderful introduction to poetry!”
Liz Julian,
EYFS Teacher, Tywardreath School
“We use both Helicopter Stories and The Poetry Basket daily in our Reception class and the poetry basket in KS1 too. Our days wouldn’t be complete without them as the children love them.”
Emily Taylor
EYFS Lead/Reception Teacher
Witney Community Primary
“Using Helicopter Stories has been a great way to hear children’s voices and celebrate their creativity. We have also been introducing new poems from The Poetry Basket and the children love them.”
Juliet Holmes
Early Years Educator
Sparkles Pre-School
For a limited time, use the code GiftOfAPoem to receive a £5 discount on your subscription. That’s access to all these amazing resources for just £55 for the entire year!
60 POETRY TEACHING TUTORIALS:
The fun and inclusive way to develop EYFS/Year 1 speech, language, and vocabulary skills.
Poetry is a brilliant way of introducing different topics, words, and ideas, to accompany other teaching.
The Poetry Basket 2 includes resources across 10 themes:
👉 All About Me
👉 Dinosaurs
👉 Emotions
👉 Down on the Farm
👉 Superheroes
👉 Insects
👉 Mini beasts
👉 Space
👉 The Seaside
👉 Animals
👉 Weather
👉 The Natural World
We believe in making poetry more accessible and memorable for children and staff across the EYFS and Year 1.
The Poetry Baskets are popular online libraries where you can wow your children with a selection of videos of lesser-known poems and actions, alongside accompanying downloadable booklets.
Not sure where to start with The Poetry basket?
Use the included 6 poems on the topic of 'All About Me' - perfect for new classes at the start of the academic year!
All our interactive resources are created specifically for 2 to 7-year-olds — captivating them with an irresistible rhythm and rhyme of language, all while developing their communication and language skills.
Buy it for your class today:
Normally £60, reduced to £55 until end of
September 2024. Buy by card or invoice.
“My class absolutely loves the poetry basket - it is probably the highlight of our day! I have many children with SEND or EAL and this resources has had a huge impact on their language development...it is simply so visual. FANTASTIC!”
Lindsay Phelps
Education Consultant
Future Leadership Solutions
The Poetry Basket 2 includes resources across 10 themes:
👉 All About Me
👉 Dinosaurs
👉 Emotions
👉 Down on the Farm
👉 Superheroes
👉 Insects
👉 Mini beasts
👉 Space
👉 The Seaside
👉 Animals
👉 Weather
👉 The Natural World
Watch the Poetry Basket in action…
Don’t delay! Use code GiftOfAPoem to get £5 off your purchase. Valid until the end of September 2024.
The power of poetry…
Develops phonetic knowledge
Develops phonetic knowledge
Playing with rhythm and rhyme helps children to hear the syllables in the words and develop their phonetic knowledge. This enables children to build pathways in the brain that support learning to read.
Incorporates sound
Incorporates sound
Poetry inspires children to play with words. As a group, they can have a go at new words without being heard individually, giving them confidence in the spoken word. Reciting poetry helps them to identify rhyming words, hone inflection, volume and pitch.
Builds vocabulary
Builds vocabulary
Introduce new words in an accessible way. Poetry makes it easier to understand the meaning and pronunciation due to the poem's context, rhythm, and cadence.
Sparks creativity
Sparks creativity
Whether reciting or reading, your children can get creative while performing and even gain the inspiration to write their own poems. Using their knowledge of the poems they learn in The Poetry Basket, they can experiment with different rhyme patterns and structures.
Develops oracy storytelling skills
Develops oracy storytelling skills
Saying a poem aloud enables children to develop their oracy skills as they see the words on the screen, hear how they sound and do the accompanying gestures.
Motivates participation
Motivates participation
Not only is poetry an effective way to motivate children to read, but it also encourages active participation with the text — individually reciting a poem or as part of a class activity to get everyone involved through speech and movement.
Enjoy 60 engaging video tutorials
Each poem has an accompanying video to display on your interactive whiteboards or you can learn it yourself to teach to your children. The poem is repeated 3 times for maximum retention!
Ten downloadable poetry booklets
You’ll receive ten downloadable poetry booklets, making it easy to integrate poetry into your daily curriculum and share with parents and caregivers.
The Poetry Basket community
Get exclusive access to The Poetry Basket community, where you can participate in our Over to You programme, and enter our annual poetry competition.
Designed by expert EYFS practitioners
The Poetry Basket 2: Themes is not just a teaching tool—it’s a gateway to a world of imaginative exploration and linguistic development for young learners. Don’t miss this opportunity to enrich your educational offerings and make a lasting impact on your children.
Actively develop key EYFS/Year 1 skills
Engage each child in expressing their creativity while simultaneously developing essential skills through the poem’s words and actions, including literacy, language, oracy, and memory.
Make interactive lessons EAL and SEND-inclusive
Our poems are ideal whole-class activities. For EAL and SEND learners, sounding out letters in the safety of a group makes developing English communication and language skills more accessible.
Boost confidence with a fun activity
Teachers can either show the video to the class or learn it themselves to share with the children. Children will gain confidence by learning the poem by heart, and often end up performing it independently. (It’s guaranteed fun, too!)
Know more, remember more
Through repetition and recitation of poetry, your EYFS/Year 1 children will effectively embed what they’re learning for improved memory recall. This will enable you to showcase your curriculum impact and how it aligns with Ofsted requirements for ‘knowing more, remembering more.’
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