Literacy - Writing Poetry
- Nonsense
Poetry
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A collection of nonsense poetry for use in your classroom.
Contributed by Lynn Platt. - Riddles - Teach your children about riddles when they are familiar with rhyming. Includes a worksheet, example riddles and extension ideas.
- Making Teacher Angry - A wonderful idea for a poem involving ways to make teachers angry!
- What a Hullabaloo! - Free plans and poems which can be used in your classrooms.
- Registration - Create a modern version of the 'Registration' poem by Allan Ahlberg.
- Pirates, Pirates, Pirates! - Use this format to encourage children to write poetry involving alliteration and lots of adjectives!
- Photographic Poetry - Create a poem in response to photographs you have, or you wish you had.
- Opposites Poem - Write an opposites poem by following the template and using the given sets of opposite words. Contributed by Sue Powell.
- Pound
a Poem Lesson Plans -
A lesson plan based on Cancer Research's Pound
a Poem competition. Contains great ideas for teaching poetry.
- Pound
a Poem Guidance -
Guidance for those entering the Pound
a Poem competition.
- Poetry Jumbled Sentences -
Enlarge these sentences and cut them out. Ask children to arrange
them and rearrange them until they have a poem that they like.
Contributed by Sue Powell.
- World
Cup Acrostic -
Use the World Cup Event as a stimulus for writing an acrostic
poem. Contributed by Julie Mollet.
- Limericks - Learn about limericks! Contains lots of examples and suggested activities.
- Christmas Poems - Try this idea for poem-writing during the festive season!
- Cinquains
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Use the writing tips to write a cinquain poem about one of the photos or pictures. Contributed by PurpleMash.
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