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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🎭Is your child a performer? Is he or she creative? Would they like to write a poem and perform it for this exciting international competition? stsd.co.uk/news/

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hi teachers! Planning some poetry writing? Here's a tip or two to share with your class for a great starter line: www.youtube.com/shorts/xQMyN...

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Ways to start a poem - TEACH POETRY

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Chuffed to see Squeak! Squawk! Roar! in JUST IMAGINE's latest list of recommended poetry books for children: thereadingjourney.co.uk/what-no-poet... Well done to all the other poets in the medley! For Squeak, it's the third recommended selection inclusion spotted this week! 🐭🦜🦁😀 Thanks to all!

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A fun afternoon's clapping, shaking, swinging & singing - in seaside mode - with children at Fairwater Library this afternoon! Here's that quiet moment just before... Pleased to say my book - Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Animal poems - is available to borrow from Fairwater Library!

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Pleased to see SQUEAK among Rhiannon Oliver's 8 poetry books to get children performing, for BookTrust: www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme... Rhiannon's own collection FRESH also offers performance scope.

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8 poetry books to get children performing

Author Rhiannon Oliver shares some favourite poetry collections that inspire children to perform.

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Bother! I seem to have put on 2lb! Perhaps I should emulate the lifestyle of the ever-slim stick insect: www.youtube.com/shorts/MJgZD...

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THIN as a STICK - Crazy Insect Rhyme

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Any TEACHERS out there??? How about Birds in Flight for your next poetry session? Proving popular on YT. www.youtube.com/shorts/xmZ1m...

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BIRDS in FLIGHT - Teach Poetry

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Hello TEACHERS! Excited and delighted that Squeak has found its way onto a map of the UK - The UK Reading Road Map! In fact, two maps, for Yrs 3-4 and Yrs 5+6! In great poetic & all-round literary company too! www.ukreadingroadmap.org Launching in October, so get revving, schools!

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I'm now posting a poem a day on my YouTube channel, in case handy for school or family. Here's the latest: Whooshing with the Swoosh: www.youtube.com/shorts/0se60...

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Whooshing with the Swoosh - POEM

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

For teachers - a fun and meaningful reading incentive for new and hesitant readers - the school dinner menu! Tips and ideas for development - www.youtube.com/shorts/rPOEU...

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MENU READING - for Teachers

YouTube video by Kate

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

TEACHERS! 🚀 SPACE WRITING ideas, tried & tested with rewarding outcomes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Hq...

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Space Writing - for teachers

YouTube video by Kate

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Hi teachers! April's a great month for mini-beasts, and this little video offers quick tips, ideas & examples for snail writing: www.youtube.com/shorts/ACNg7...

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For Teachers - Snail Writing

YouTube video by Kate

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

With the moon in the news this week, it seems a good time to share 'Moonpower' from 'Squeak', for any child (or adult!) awake on a moonshiny night: www.youtube.com/shorts/AIPbp...

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POEM - Moonpower

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Spring at last - if breezy! Here's 'Blossom's Moment' - www.youtube.com/shorts/fwx5f...

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Teachers! Discussing sustainability, ocean creatures, endangered species or our precious world? Here's a supporting poem about a vulnerable sea turtle: www.youtube.com/shorts/CGgQ9...

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TEACH POETRY - Turtle Poem

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Lovely to be back at Waterstones Croydon last week, celebrating World Book Day with 10 school classes, with the help of 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' Copies in stock at the store, Whitgift Centre. Thanks to all staff for their warm welcome & support!

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Zebra Crossing (Did you see it?) www.youtube.com/shorts/XrpRm...

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Zebra Crossing

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Hi teachers & parents! Here's my latest poem video - bringing poetry alive for children 'Cobra gets Comfy' 🐍 (from Squeak! Squawk! Roar!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVG5...

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Cobra gets Comfy

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Latest little poem video for sharing in school - and taking off from: Chimpantease: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjwT... Ask - What else might this cheeky chimp throw? Can you spot any rhymes? (e.g. chimpanzee/tree, back/smack).

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Chimpantease

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Teachers, parents and carers - LOTS of fun little poem videos on my YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/@KatesPoems111 Keeping kids busy, entertained, thinking, learning and imagining. Here's Sharky Lurky, for instance: www.youtube.com/shorts/v4wO7...

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Sharky Lurky

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

In my latest poem video you'll spy a lion... but has he spied you too? L-L-L-Look Out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIR...

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L L L Look Out!

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🐟 'Fishy Wishes' - my latest poem video - offers a starting point for home or class discussions on love, care, friendship, positive thinking, self-esteem, and nature, besides being a fun little rhyme. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON3J...

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Fishy Wishes

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The animals of SQUEAK & I would like to wish everyone a VERY HAPPY 2026! 🍾

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Smarty Snail - from 'Squeak': www.youtube.com/shorts/y_gGY...

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Smarty Snail

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Anyone with bored kids at home? Try them with this!🐧

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🐘Nice to see my 'Elephantine Problem' - from SQUEAK! SQUAWK! ROAR! - picking up a bit of interest on YouTube lately. There's a question about the lifestyle of giraffes too that viewers seem to be sticking around for...🦒 www.youtube.com/shorts/hxcoj...

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Elephantine Problem

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

No. 1 done of my 7 Libraries of Newport: lovely, rural Bettws. Greeted with immediate offer of coffee - REAL, GROUND coffee! 11/10 stars!

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Feels good to be stocking up for Christmas!

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

💨Funny how some things catch on against the odds! My little rhyme 'The Wind' is one of those, always getting top views on my channel despite muzzy sound and one still image! But tonight it has the real wind of Storm Claudia to spin with! Take care all! www.youtube.com/shorts/rqfhv...

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The Wind - a rhyme for children

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

📚🚸Today is National Young Readers' Day, so - noses into books, kids! Or snuggle up close to whoever may be reading to you! There's plenty to choose from... Sitting comfortably?

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Hi teachers, parents and child carers - If you're celebrating fireworks, here are some warm-up actions I use to get creative ideas going in my poetry workshops (excuse the background mess!): www.youtube.com/shorts/TlEa3...

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Firework Actions - for Teachers & Parents

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

So true - what Ana Sampson says here: "For readers intimidated by a whole book, poetry can expand their imaginations and vocabularies in small, easy steps. Pick up a poem, and you’re on the road to raising a reader." childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/11/06/a...

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Ana Sampson: Raising Readers

We know that reading sets children up for success, and is the key to a world of comfort, empathy and joy. And yet children’s literacy – and that of adults – has declined rapidly. How, then, can we …

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🎇Teachers and families! Here's a fun, punchy fireworks rhyme to share with your classes. Join in the Snap! Crackle! chorus, act out the firework actions, make the sounds, and make up more verses! Kate Williams Author: 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' Animal poems.

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Schools and families! Here's an array of firework-celebrating poetry ideas and examples! Chuffed to have my 'Snap Crackle' included! brian-moses.blogspot.com/2024/11/nove...

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Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel

NOVEMBER 5th POEMS For KS1 (Copyright to all poems remains with their creators. My thanks to everyone who contributed) A Poetry Lesson fro...

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

🦇? Too late for Halloween, but all those bats flying about put me in mind of my batty old rhyme: Batman Comes Undone Help! Disaster! Fire and smoke! Robin's trod on Batman's cloak! Torn a rip right up the back! He'll have to wear his anorak.

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🎃Hope you're all surviving Halloween! 🪄Here are some silly magic spells for the kids. (Harmless - no turning people into frogs!) www.youtube.com/shorts/vgwWL...

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Lucky Spells

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🎃🪄Friendly Halloween rhymes are fun to concoct, and can keep children happily busy at this exciting time, so - parents, families, teachers, carers - feel free to take a screenshot of this, or message me for a downloadable version. 🌛 Used rewardingly in my October school workshops.

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🎃A spooky Halloween rhyme for older children - Jack o' Tricks: www.youtube.com/shorts/9QZvW... Plenty more rhymes, poems & ideas for home & school creative fun on my channel to browse while you're there too!

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Jack o' Tricks

YouTube video by Kate Williams Poet

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Spook time is almost upon us, so here's my 'Haik-Who?', featuring in scaryness.com, inspired by a strange phenomenon once reported: 👻 We’re all in the hall mirror with one more figure not here in the hall.

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Tickets to Scary-ness on the poetry express

Scary Poems for Children (with a sprinkle of fun)

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Rhyme needs rhythm. Through a digital screen? Why not? Here - briefly - are Reception & Yr 1 at Hagbourne Primary, Oxon, and me... in Wales!

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

World Animal Day was yesterday, and I'm sure it set the creatures in 'Squeak' shuddering and snorting in their different ways. Here's my post about it - and them: katewilliamspoet.com/2025/10/05/w...

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WORLD ANIMAL DAY

Yesterday was WORLD ANIMAL DAY, and the cruelty goes on, along with disappearances of whole species, and the long shadows reach even into my little book of animal poems. They have to. In Squeak! Sq…

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A very happy National Poetry Day with Hagbourne Primary School, Oxon, via Zoom! Here are the younger children enacting a wood, ready for animal rhymes! Then 4/5 & I explored emotions, with wonderfully expressive outcomes! Well done all! @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I'm squeaking and squawking with delight to see 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar!' on the updated, September version of the excellent School Reading List - poetry for 7-11 year olds category - and in fine company too! schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/poetr...

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Poetry books for 7-11-year-olds

Children's poetry for 7-11-year-olds with titles by Michael Rosen, Joseph Coelho, Carol Ann Duffy, Brian Moses, Benjamin Zephaniah & more.

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Teachers - friendly spells & free prompt sheet for your class? Almost every day of the year I get viewings on this post on my blog, and now, as Halloween nears, more than ever! katewilliamspoet.com/2020/10/21/h...

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Harmless Halloween Spells

Halloween offers a great opportunity to get rhyming, with crazy magic spells. Not everyone wants to be turned into a frog – or worse, but who says spells have to be nasty? Here are some ideas…

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Teachers! Zillions of poetry and literacy resources at my TES shop: www.tes.com/teaching-res... Schools are also finding my new book 'SQUEAK! SQUAWK! ROAR!' handy for topic work on nature, animals, environment and sustainability.

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Kate Williams - TES

Author: 'Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Amazing Animal Poems' - out now! Details here: https://katewilliamspoet.com/squeak-squawk-roar/ Children's poet: website:...

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Kate @katepoet.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Today is International Cat Day 😼 so here's 'A Cat's Day In' from my new book of animal poems - 'SQUEAK! SQUAWK! ROAR!'

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