Get Your Class To Write Nursery Rhymes For Grown-Ups

Here is a great idea for you to try out with your class. Take a simple Nursery Rhyme and make it ridiculously long-winded and complicated!

How To GoRound The World In 26 Letters

Armed with a dictionary, a thesaurus and, of course, an atlas you are going to take your children on an exciting journey round the world in exactly 26 letters!

How To Write An Acrostic Autobiography

Here is a fun activity and a great way to get your class to tell you something about themselves.

Thirteen Amazing Things To Do With A Poem

Have you ever sat down and made a list of different, whacky things you could do with a poem?

That is what we are going to encourage you to do with your children. Here’s how.

You Are The Estate Agent For Magical Houses

Just imagine you were the estate agent for magical houses. What would you sell? Who would buy your houses? Would some of the properties be a little creepy?

Introducing Simple Similes to Younger Children

Are You Looking For Inspiration?

As a busy teacher are you sometimes looking for quick and easy writing ideas that the children will love and will give you some amazing results? Then we have the answer for you.

10 Great Ideas for Using Rhyming With Younger Children

Rhyming teaches children how language works.  It helps them notice and work with the sounds within words. In this post we will show you 10 ways you can explore rhyming with your children.

Five Funny Old Fellows – Having Fun With Limericks

One of the poems in David’s latest poetry book for children – ‘All Good Things – A Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry For Children‘, is called ‘Five Funny Old Fellows’. Each verse begins with lines from the limericks of Edward Lear.

In this post we are going to suggest some activities your children might have a go at after reading David’s poem.

Three Spine-Chilling Halloween Writing Ideas

We have some spooktacular writing resources available in the Goodeyedeers Shop at TES or our TpT Store. Each one is packed with ideas to help you have a great lesson with your children.

What Happened to Peter Piper’s Pickled Peppers?

We all know about Peter Piper and the pickled peppers he picked but have you ever wondered what happened to those pickled peppers? Read on to find out and then get your class to create some alliterating tongue twister stories of their own.

Playing With Haiku

Let’s have some fun writing Haiku poems.

Here are six lesson ideas for you to try out with your children.

What If Humpty Dumpty Didn’t Fall Off That Wall?

We all know the story of Humpty Dumpty and his fall off that wall. It is a very short, somewhat boring and nonsensical story. What might have happened if he hadn’t toppled off that wall? Read on to find out…