The power of poetry – ASD
When your daughter shares a view of her world. This evening Freya shared a poem with me, taken from an anthology she was reading. Her words as she handed over her phone to read it. This is like my world. …
poetry
Live poetry production
After recapping our OARSIM acronym, the class are exploring and writing poetry with Concrete Poetry lets you choose or draw a picture on the screen, then drag and drop the words to fill in it that the tool gives you. …
Alliteration
Y7 poetry – abbreviated lesson objective OAR. Onomatopoeia, alliteration and rhyme. A short poem caught my eye – Three Witches Three witches wished one wish but which witch wished which? Morgan Suzie When Suzie sits in the shoe shine shop …
Modelling
If would have been an outstanding lesson had you modelled to the students what it was you wanted to see. I guess modelling what I wanted the students to produce was / would be a useful strategy. Moving to the English …
IF by Kristian Kipling – though not a patch on the original
IF If you can keep on reading when all about you Are losing lives and blaming it on their VDU; If you can thrust yourself onward when foes attack you, Make defences for their onlaughts too: If you can wait …
Charge!
In an effort to learn more of the historical context to ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade,’ an event of no military significance that has become iconic in the British historical imagination, I am listening to Melvyn Bragg and guests …
Triptico Magnet Poetry
Today I used Coldplay’s Paradise and Triptico’s Word Magnets to stimulate a creative poetry activity. You can decide how to use the activity, I will share how I prepared it in less than ten minutes. Triptico is definitely quick, easy …