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| solo verse speaking | N1 | Open | Ages 5 & 6 | Boys and Girls | Snap! Crack! by Richard Caley (* Video Submission ) | Dinosaur Poems – Compiled by Paul Cookson, page 31 |
| solo verse speaking | N2 | Open | Age 7 | Boys and Girls | Poor Little Thing by Clive Webster (* Video Submission ) | Dinosaur Poems – Compiled by Paul Cookson, page 47 |
| solo verse speaking | N3 | Open | Age 8 | Boys and Girls | The Stars at Night by Jane and Ann Taylor | 100 Best Poems for Children – Edited by Roger McGough, page 109 |
| solo verse speaking | N4 | Open | Age 9 | Boys and Girls | Hatch Me a Riddle by John Agard | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 18 |
| solo verse speaking | N5 | Open | Age 10 | Boys and Girls | Books Have Helped Me by Joseph Coelho | The Big Amazing Poetry Book – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, page 44 |
| solo verse speaking | N6 | Open | Age 11 | Boys and Girls | Littlemouse by Richard Edwards | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 14 |
| solo verse speaking | N7 | Open | Age 12 | Boys and Girls | Just Fancy That by Max Fatchen | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, pages 148-149 |
| solo verse speaking | N8 | Open | Age 13 | Boys and Girls | Prince Kano by Edward Lowbury | 100 Best Poems for Children – Edited by Roger McGough, page 64 |
| solo verse speaking | N9 | Open | Age 14 | Boys and Girls | The Dark by James Carter | The Works 3 – Chosen by Paul Cookson, page 223 |
| solo verse speaking | N10 | Open | Age 15 | Boys and Girls | Parrot by Alan Brownjohn | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 103 |
| solo verse speaking | N11 | Open | Age 16 | Boys and Girls | October by Edward Thomas | 100 Best Poems for Children – Edited by Roger McGough, page 116 |
| solo verse speaking | N12 | Open | Age 17 | Boys and Girls | Snow in the Suburbs by Thomas Hardy | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 351 |
| Sonnet | N13 | Open | Age 14 and over | Boys and Girls | An Old Song Re-Sung by John Masefield | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 296 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 20 | Non-Open | P1&2 | Girls | I Had a Little Cat by Charles Causley | The Big Amazing Poetry Book – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, page 86 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 21 | Non-Open | P1&2 | Girls | All Day Saturday by Charles Causley | The Big Amazing Poetry Book – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, page 88 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 22 | Non-Open | P1&2 | Girls | The Squirrel - Anonymous | The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes – Illustrated by Raymond Briggs, page 105 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 23 | Non-Open | P3 | Girls | Jellyfish Pie by Roger McGough | Roger McGough 80 Poems by Roger McGough, page 31 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 24 | Non-Open | P3 | Girls | The Hair Fairy by Roger McGough | Roger McGough 80 Poems by Roger McGough, page 22 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 25 | Non-Open | P3 | Girls | I Like to Stay Up by Grace Nichols | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 10 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 26 | Non-Open | P4 | Girls | The Old Woman and the Sandwiches by Libby Houston | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 52 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 27 | Non-Open | P4 | Girls | Best Friends by Adrian Henri | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 98 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 28 | Non-Open | P4 | Girls | The Singing Time by Leonard Clark | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 224 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 29 | Non-Open | P5 | Girls | Good Company by Leonard Clark | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 227 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 30 | Non-Open | P5 | Girls | The Microbe by Hilaire Belloc | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 325 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 31 | Non-Open | P5 | Girls | Politeness by Harry Graham | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 306 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 32 | Non-Open | P6 | Girls | The Last Word of a Bluebird by Robert Frost | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 308 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 33 | Non-Open | P6 | Girls | At Nine of the Night I Opened My Door by Charles Causley | 101 Poems for Children – Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy, pages 109-110 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 34 | Non-Open | P6 | Girls | Take a Poem by James Carter | The Big Amazing Poetry Book – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, pages 135-136 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 35 | Non-Open | S1 | Girls | Old David Smail by Robert Service | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, pages 304-305 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 36 | Non-Open | S1 | Girls | Thanks Mum by Martin Glynn | The Big Amazing Poetry Book – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, pages 445-446 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 37 | Non-Open | S1 | Girls | The Sounds in the Evening by Eleanor Farjeon | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, pages 283-284 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 38 | Non-Open | S2 | Girls | The Mouse by Laura E. Richards | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, pages 346-347 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 39 | Non-Open | S2 | Girls | The Hairy Toe - Traditional | 100 Best Poems for Children – Edited by Roger McGough, pages 120-121 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 40 | Non-Open | S2 | Girls | Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony by Shel Silverstein | 100 Best Poems for Children – Edited by Roger McGough, pages 102-103 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 41 | Non-Open | S3 | Girls | Tabby by Grace Nichols | The Big Amazing Poetry Book – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, page 306 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 42 | Non-Open | S3 | Girls | Giants by Lydia Pender | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 220 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 43 | Non-Open | S3 | Girls | from The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning | 100 Best Poems for Children – Edited by Roger McGough, page 18 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 44 | Non-Open | S4 | Girls | Never Since Eden (Verses 1 to Verses 5 only) by Raymond Wilson | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 128 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 45 | Non-Open | S4 | Girls | The Tiger by William Blake | 100 Best Poems for Children – Edited by Roger McGough, page 17 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 46 | Non-Open | S4 | Girls | The Giantess by Carol Ann Duffy | The Big Amazing Poetry Book – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, pages 282-283 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 47 | Non-Open | S5 | Girls | A Rabbit Reveals My Room by Nancy Willard | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 86 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 48 | Non-Open | S5 | Girls | Song of the Worms by Margaret Atwood | 100 Best Poems for Children – Edited by Roger McGough, page 12 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 49 | Non-Open | S6 | Girls | Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold | 100 Best Poems for Children – Edited by Roger McGough, pages 10-11 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 50 | Non-Open | S6 | Girls | The Rabbit’s Advice by Elizabeth Jennings | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 126 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 51 | Non-Open | P1&2 | Boys | Talking to the Wall by John Foster | The Poetry Chest by John Foster, page 33 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 52 | Non-Open | P1&2 | Boys | My Dog, Spot by Rodney Bennett | Read Me 1 – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, pages 321-322 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 53 | Non-Open | P3 | Boys | I Love My Darling Tractor by Charles Causley | The Big Amazing Poetry Book – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, page 84 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 54 | Non-Open | P3 | Boys | Midnight by Jan Dean | The Big Amazing Poetry Book – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, page 68 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 55 | Non-Open | P4 | Boys | Billy by Michael Dugan | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 20 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 56 | Non-Open | P4 | Boys | Learning by Heart by Sue Hardy-Dawson | The Big Amazing Poetry Book – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, page 30 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 57 | Non-Open | P5 | Boys | I Know Someone Who Can by Michael Rosen | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, pages 24-25 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 58 | Non-Open | P5 | Boys | I’m the Youngest in Our House by Michael Rosen | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, pages 26-27 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 59 | Non-Open | P6 | Boys | The Mystery Space Beasts by Wes Magee | The Works Key Stage 1 – Chosen by Pie Corbett, pages 117-118 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 60 | Non-Open | P6 | Boys | I Think My Teacher is a Cowboy by John Coldwell | 100 Best Poems for Children – Edited by Roger McGough, page 23 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 61 | Non-Open | S1 | Boys | Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe | 100 Great Poems for Boys – Edited by Leslie Pockell, pages 57-58 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 62 | Non-Open | S1 | Boys | An old plot of land by Clive Webster | The Works 5 – Chosen by Paul Cookson, pages 313-314 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 63 | Non-Open | S2 | Boys | Timothy Winters by Charles Causley | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, pages 162-163 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 64 | Non-Open | S2 | Boys | Lines and Squares by A. A. Milne | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, page 273 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 65 | Non-Open | S3 | Boys | The Bully Asleep by John Walsh | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, pages 194-195 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 66 | Non-Open | S3 | Boys | Sorry Sorry Sorry by James Carter | Read Me and Laugh – Chosen by Gaby Morgan, pages 380-381 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 67 | Non-Open | S4 | Boys | The Blind Boxer by W. H. Davies | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, pages 320-321 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 68 | Non-Open | S4 | Boys | The Fiddler of Dooney by William Butler Yeats | 100 Great Poems for Boys – Edited by Leslie Pockell, page 67 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 69 | Non-Open | S5 | Boys | The Thousandth Man by Rudyard Kipling | 100 Great Poems for Boys – Edited by Leslie Pockell, pages 151-152 |
| solo verse speaking | U/E/K/Y 70 | Non-Open | S6 | Boys | These I Have Loved… by Rupert Brooke | The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse – Edited by Brian Patten, pages 267-268 |
| Solo Prose Speaking | N139 | Open | Age 5-6 | Boys & Girls | Humphrey's Tiny Tales 3: My Creepy-Crawly Camping Adventure! by Betty G. Birney (* Video Submission Mode ) | Chapter 2, Boys and Noise, pages 24-27 Faber and Faber |
| From: I ran and ran inside my hamster ball… | To: …in my cage on the table. |
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| Solo Prose Speaking | N140 | Open | Age 7-8 | Boys & Girls | Mr Dog and the Seal Deal by Ben Fogle (* Video Submission Mode ) | Chapter 3, A Cry For Help, pages 24-25 Harper Collins |
| From: Mr Dog wandered through the woodland that… | To: …west was best, and off he went. |
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| Solo Prose Speaking | N141 | Open | Age 9 | Boys & Girls | Esio Trot by Roald Dahl | Pages 6-7 Puffin |
| From: Alfie had been with Mrs Silver for years… | To: …OH, HOW I HAVE MISSED YOU!’ |
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| Solo Prose Speaking | N142 | Open | Age 10 | Boys & Girls | Paddington Abroad by Michael Bond | Chapter 3, Trouble At The Airport, pages 41-43 Harper Collins |
| From: Excitement mounted in the Browns’ house… | To: …rescued from the dustbin some days before. |
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| Solo Prose Speaking | N143 | Open | Age 11 | Boys & Girls | The Giant’s Necklace by Michael Morpurgo | Pages 22-24 Walker Books ISBN 9781406373493 |
| From: In the end the heat proved too much for her mother… | To: …on her jersey and jeans. |
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| Solo Prose Speaking | N144 | Open | Age 12 | Boys & Girls | Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi | Chapter 16, pages 83-85 Puffin |
| From: While poor Pinocchio, hung on a branch of… | To: …to put his tail in when it was raining. |
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| Solo Prose Speaking | N145 | Open | Age 13 | Boys & Girls | Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill, Chapter 1, pages 81-82 | BC Books ISBN 9781780277417 |
| From: This is the story of a girl called… | To: …but that is how it seems. |
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| Solo Prose Speaking | N146 | Open | Age 14 | Boys & Girls | Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl | Chapter “Homesickness”, pages 109-110 Puffin |
| From: Miss Root’s voice had… | To: …array of dental tools. |
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| Solo Prose Speaking | N147 | Open | Age 15 | Boys & Girls | Going Solo by Roald Dahle | Chapter “The Green Mamba”, pages 41-42 Puffin ISBN 9780141365558 |
| From: Oh, those snakes! How I hated them!… | To: …He didn't even raise his voice. |
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| Solo Prose Speaking | N148 | Open | Age 16 and over | Boys & Girls | Old Filth by Jane Gardam | Chapter “The Donheads”, pages 5-6 Abacus ISBN 9780349139494 |
| From: He was spectacularly clean… | To: …how to treat servants and they stayed for years. |
