Try These Free Decodable Poems!

This download includes:

• Sample poems from Phases 2, 3 & 4  • Teachers' notes with scripts for guided/1:1 reading.

Getting Started:

1. Choose a poem matching your pupils' current phonics phase.
2. Use it for shared reading with your whole class.
3. Alternatively use it for a guided or 1:1 reading session.
4. Follow the teaching scripts for confidence and maximum impact.
5. Watch how engaged your pupils become!

Bonus Teaching Idea:

Use these poems as models you can innovate on in shared writing sessions and for the children to create their own during literacy lessons.

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Complete poem packs are available for each phase, giving you a whole year's worth of engaging, decodable reading material.

This pack of 10 poems has been matched to Phase 2 of The Teach Hub LaS. At the bottom of each poem is a note of which week of Phase 2 it links to. At the end of that line there is a guide to which book band the poem may fit with. Please note, these have not been officially banded – I have used my teaching experience to identify the most likely band.

Teachers' notes provide 'scripts' for each poem, which can be used for guided or individual reading. They could also be used to inform the use of the poems for whole class shared reading.

Topics covered include: the seaside,minibeasts, pets, nature, ourselves.

List of poems:
Weeks 1 & 2: Dad
Week 3: Kid
Week 4: On and in
Week 6: Pack the bag, Cat, No fun, Moss, On a log, Can I?, In the pocket

This pack of 14 poems has been matched to Phase 2 of The Teach Hub LaS. At the bottom of each poem is a note of which week of Phase 2 it links to. At the end of that line there is a guide to which book band the poem may fit with. Please note, these have not been officially banded – I have used my teaching experience to identify the most likely band.

Teachers' notes provide 'scripts' for each poem, which can be used for guided or individual reading. They could also be used to inform the use of the poems for whole class shared reading.

Topics covered include: pets, art, clothing, sports, camping, fantasy, minibeasts, surfing, monsters, number

List of poems:
Weeks 1 & 2: A tin
Week 3: A dog, Mop man kit
Week 4: On a sock, The run,
Week 6: It is hot, Can a...?, The bus, A bug, I miss, Fun, fun, fun!, Lick, Lots of..., Ten

This pack of 13 poems has been matched to Phase 2 of The Teach Hub LaS Programme. At the bottom of each poem is a note of which week of Phase 2 it links to. At the end of that line there is a guide to which book band the poem may fit with.Please note, these have not been officially banded – I have used my teaching experience to identify the most likely band.

Topics covered include: the seaside, pets, toys, clothes, colours, shopping, picnics, exercise & sports (including wheelchair sports).

List of poems:
Weeks 1,2 & 3: Nap, A cat sat
Week 4: Red
Week 5: I run...
Week 6: The doll, Lin, A hat, No fun, Nan, Picnic, Ill, Off I go, The dig

This pack of 7 poems has been matched to Phase 3 of The Teach Hub LaS programme. At the bottom of each poem is a note of which week of Phase 3 it links to. At the end of that line there is a guide to which book band the poem may fit with.  Please note, these have not been officially banded – I have used my teaching experience to identify the most likely band.

Teachers' notes provide 'scripts' for each poem, which can be used for guided or individual reading. They could also be used to inform the use of the poems for whole class shared reading.

Topics covered include: jobs, animals, people, tongue twisters,  fantasy creatures/objects, behaviour, pets.

List of poems:
Week 1: Jack, Max, Kevin and Will, Jack and Jill
Week 3: She sells a shell ship
Week 4: We can...
Week 6: Did you?
Week 7: They might be..., Mad sheep

This pack of 7 poems has been matched to Phase 3 of Teach Hub LaS. At the bottom of each poem is a note of which week of Phase 3 it links to. At the end of that line there is a guide to which book band the poem may fit with. Please note, these have not been officially banded – I have used my teaching experience to identify the most likely band.

Topics covered include: up and down, hair, positions, containers, people, animals

List of poems:
Week 1: On a... in a...
Week 2: Is and is not
Week 4: Can he, can we?, With me
Week 5: Jars
Week 6: Up and down
Week 7: Hair

This is a pack of 17 poems matched to The Teach Hub LaS. At the bottom of each poem is a note of which week of Phase 4 it links to. At the end of that line there is a guide to which book band the poem may fit with. Please note, these have not been officially banded – I have used my teaching experience to identify the most likely band.

Teachers' notes provide 'scripts' for each poem, which can be used for guided or individual reading. They could also be used to inform the use of the poems for whole class shared reading.

Topics covered include: things you can do, fantasy, summer, behaviour, monsters, number rhyme, minibeasts, ourselves, food, comparatve language, nature, animals.

List of poems:
Week 1:
Week 2: It was not, They sit, Are you...? Summer in the park, He was, she was, Wishing, As mad as can be, Moaning, Monsters
Week 3: 5 Little Insects
Week 4: What do you do when you go out?
Week 5: Lunchbox, Shall I?
Week 6: Big, bigger, biggest, Being good
Week 7: In the wood, Animals

This is a pack of 7 poems matched to Phase 5a of The Teach Hub LaS . At the bottom of each poem is a note of which week of Phase 5a it links to.  At the end of that line there is a guide to which book band the poem may fit with.  Please note, these have not been officially banded – I have used my teaching experience to identify the most likely band.

Teachers' notes provide 'scripts' for each poem, which can be used for guided or individual reading. They could also be used to inform the use of the poems for whole class shared reading.

Topics covered include: riddles, people, names, playing, sounds, the sea, animals, food

List of poems:
Week 2: Under the sea, Playing
Week 3: Oh!, What are they?, How it goes
Week 5: Mr & Mrs, The king and queen's tea

This is a pack of 2 poems matched to Phase 5b of The Teach Hub LaS. At the bottom of each poem is a note of which week of Phase 5b it links to. At the end of that line there is a guide to which book band the poem may fit with. Please note, these have not been officially banded – I have used my teaching experience to identify the most likely band.

Teachers' notes provide 'scripts' for each poem, which can be used for guided or individual reading. They could also be used to inform the use of the poems for whole class shared reading.

Topics covered include: water, traditional tales.

List of poems:
Week 3: What can water do?
Week 4: Once upon a time

This is a pack of 27 poems matched to Phase 5c of The Teach Hub LaS. At the bottom of each poem is a note of which week of Phase 5c it links to.  At the end of that line there is a guide to which book band the poem may fit with. Please note, these have not been officially banded – I have used my teaching experience to identify the most likely band.

Teachers' notes provide 'scripts' for each poem, which can be used for guided or individual reading. They could also be used to inform the use of the poems for whole class shared reading.

Topics covered include: tennis, work, spelling, pets, animal diets, fantasy, weather, cooking, knights, sequel to a traditional tale, Australia, seasons

List of poems:
Week 1: My dog Titchy, How it goes, The race
Week 2: Bedtime, In a breeze
Week 3: What would you be?, Oh how we giggled
Week 5: Again and again
Week 6: Tennis, The brickie, Ozzie words
Week 7: What do creatures eat?
Week 8: Mysteries, Who can work?, Spelling
Week 9: Where do friends play? The breadmaker, The knight with the knocking knees, Goldilocks: part 2, Strange things
Week 11: Oh little potato, Seasons, My invention, School holidays
Week 12: Where, Sauce
Week 15: Grandpa

This download bundle contains the 68 poems from the Phase 2, 3 & 4 Core, More and Even More Phonics Poems downloads matched to The Teach Hub LaS detailed above at a discounted price.

This download bundle contains the 36 poems from the Phase 5a, 5b & 5c Core Phonics Poems downloads matched to The Teach Hub LaS detailed above at a discounted price.