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As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.

As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.

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We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.

Year 5 Poetry and plays worksheets

Free worksheets: Poetry and plays, KS2, Y5

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Write a poem about snow worksheet

Write a poem about snow

In this worksheet, your child can complete a poem about snow by filling in the blanks. Repeat the exercise to come up with a few different poems.
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Structuring a haiku worksheet

Structuring a haiku

Children are encouraged to read these haikus and then think about the way haikus are structured.
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Reading and writing a free verse poem

Reading and writing a free verse poem

A free verse poem is one that does not follow any rhyme scheme or have a particular structure – you’re free to write any way you want! Read this poem out loud then talk to an adult about your first impressions of it.
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Book reviews activity pack

Book reviews activity pack

Help your child explore books and language with TheSchoolRun's Book reviews activity pack, a huge collection of reading comprehension and creative writing resources for Year 1 to Year 6.
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Shakespeare plays wordsearch

Shakespeare plays wordsearch

Challenge your KS2 child to a Shakespearean wordsearch. Can they find the titles of 14 of the Bard's famous plays hidden in the wordsearch grid?
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Reading and writing a free verse poem

Reading and writing a free verse poem

A free verse poem is one that does not follow any rhyme scheme or have a particular structure – you’re free to write any way you want! Read this poem out loud then talk to an adult about your first impressions of it.
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Write a poem about snow worksheet

Write a poem about snow

In this worksheet, your child can complete a poem about snow by filling in the blanks. Repeat the exercise to come up with a few different poems.
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Witch's spell poem worksheet

Witch's spell poem

Use this worksheet to think of ingredients for a spell. This activity encourages children to write an imaginative poem and set their words and pictures out in an eye-catching way.
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Winter nights poem worksheet

Winter nights poem

This worksheet will give your child a starting point from which to write an imaginative poem. Encourages thinking about interesting description and text layout.
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Seaside similes poem worksheet

Seaside similes poem

A worksheet to encourage children to generate similes and then organise them into a poem.
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Writing poetry from prose worksheetf

Writing poetry from prose

This worksheet encourages children to look at a piece of prose and improve it with their own phrases, before transforming the prose into a poem.
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Writing a haiku worksheet

Writing a haiku

This worksheet shows children how to structure a haiku and then gives them prompts on how to write their own.
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Writing an acrostic poem worksheet

Writing an acrostic poem

A worksheet encouraging children to think of ideas and then structure them into an acrostic poem.
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Writing a limerick worksheet

Writing a limerick

A worksheet encouraging children to read a limerick and think about its structure, then structure their own limerick.
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Writing about your favourite poem worksheet

Writing about your favourite poem

A worksheet giving prompts for children to think and write about the setting, structure and language of their favourite poem.
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Writing haiku poems worksheet

Writing haiku poems

A sheet encouraging children to choose a theme and then write three haikus that share this theme.
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Structuring a haiku worksheet

Structuring a haiku

Children are encouraged to read these haikus and then think about the way haikus are structured.
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Haiku themes worksheet

Haiku themes

Examples of three haikus. Children are encouraged to read them and work out what they are about and what the common theme is.
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Creating comic effect worksheet

Creating comic effect

An extract from a playscript. Children are asked to read the text and think about the techniques used to create a comic effect.
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