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• Colourful and visually appealing to help engage and inspire your students.
• Full of motivating activities, with opportunities for Assessment for Learning.
• Glossaries help make poems accessible for all your students.
• Uses a wide range of poetry styles with well-known classics and more contemporary poetry, as required in the National Curriculum.
• Provides coverage of Framework objectives for teaching English to help you deliver the KS3 strategy.
• Helps with pupil’s progression throughout KS3 and transition from KS3 to GCSE.

Interactive Poetry 11-14 Student Book

Section A: Poets and their poems

Norman Silver
Electronic Brain      
I want trainers       
Life is a ball       
Linking the Norman Silver poems    

John Agard
The Soldiers Came      
What The Teacher Said When Asked: What Er We Avin For Geography Miss?  
Checking Out Me History   
Linking the John Agard poems    

Elizabeth Jennings
The Moth’s Plea      
Casting a spell       
The Fish’s Warning      
Linking the Elizabeth Jennings poems   

Poems on a theme: Playing with words
Anon: Why English is so hard      
David Horner: Little Acorns     
Malorie Blackman: Facing the Truth – with Haikus  
Linking the Playing with words poems   

Poem pairings
Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky     
Trevor Millum: Jabbermockery     

Section B: Poets and their poems

Benjamin Zephaniah
Wot a pair       
According to my mood      
Important notice      
Linking the Benjamin Zephaniah poems   

Jackie Kay
English cousin comes to Scotland    
Tomorrow they’ll be coming to get me    
Pollution       
Linking the Jackie Kay poems    

William Blake
The Tyger       
Holy Thursday (Experience)     
London        
Linking the William Blake poems    

Poems on a theme: Through my eyes
Alan Smith: Weekend visit     
Susan Hrynkow: Grandfather     
Berlie Doherty: Quieter than snow    
Linking the Through my eyes poems    

Poem pairings
WB Yeats: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven  
Sheenagh Pugh: The boy with a Cloud in his Hand  
Shakespeare: Sonnet 18     
Celia Warner: Shakespeare’s 18th Worm   

Section C: Poets and their poems

Thomas Hardy
A Light Snow-Fall after Frost     
Heredity       
The Walk       
Linking the Thomas Hardy poems    

Grace Nichols
On Receiving a Jamaican Postcard    
Two Old Black Men on a Leicester Square Park Bench 
For Forest       
Linking the Grace Nichols poems    

Ted Hughes
Thistles       
The Harvest Moon      
The Thought Fox      
Linking the Ted Hughes poems    

Poems on a theme: Words of war
Siegfried Sassoon: Suicide in the Trenches   
Ho Thien: Green Beret     
Goran Simic: Sorrow of Sarajevo    
Linking the Words of war poems    

Poem pairings
Rupert M Loydell