Little Red Riding Hood

Poet: Roald Dahl

Age: KS2

This poem is taken from the Revolting Rhymes collection, which takes familiar, popular fairy tales and re-invents them by writing them as poems with gruesome twists. As the poem is comedic and slightly rude it is more exciting for older children. This makes poetry more accessible, as the children already know the classic story, but also poetry becomes more engaging and fun.

The concept of using a familiar story and re-writing it as a poem with a twist could be used, as this would allow the children to be imaginative with their writing and help them to form characters. Firstly, they could explore the original character, then adapt that same character and this could be extended to create your own characters for further writing (the task will perhaps inspire and focus children, giving them ideas).

Great resource to model how a writer can magpie ideas for their own writing.

The BBC used the Revolting Rhymes book to create two animations that blend some of Roald Dahl's versions of the fairy tales together: