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Hi, thanks for looking in! Here’s Tip 2 for helping your class get poetry-writing: ban rulers. What’s wrong with rulers? Like rubbing out (see previous tip), drawing lines with a ruler will interrupt the flow of ideas and detract from the all-important sense of free, fun, linguistic adventure. After ruling lines, children feel they have…
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Daily tips for getting your young class writing poetry, drawn from my own experience as a children’s poet and experienced workshop leader. Today’s tip: ban erasers. Free up Free up creativity by allowing ideas to change and develop during the writing process. It’s a thousand times more productive to cross out words for the benefit…
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🙂 Hi there! Here are two lines from my poem – ‘Wicked Winter Tree‘: Extend and develop! If you’re a teacher, parent or child carer, you could offer this as a starting point for a spooky, mysterious, wintry poem with your young poets, either together or individually. Discuss bare, December trees, their twisty twigs and…
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🙂 Hello and welcome! Here’s my latest published poem snippet, from ‘Christmas Greetings’ – Hmm, not the warmest of greetings there! And this verse is just one of several of similar coolness from various members of the family – Mum, Dad, and sister, to this child recipient. Each has a little nag wrapped up in…
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🙂 Hello, thanks for popping in! Here’s today’s snippet – belatedly! This one is from ‘Wind-Whirling Wand’, a poem that looks at the magical and marvellous aspects of a wind turbine. This poem celebrates alternative energy, or on a children’s level, celebrates the wonders of a modern windmill (or turbine) that whisks up the blue…
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🙂 Hello, thanks for your visit! Here’s my latest poetry snippet, this one from ‘Watching through the Window’: Children may enjoy illustrating this image of a busy street, with people heading in criss-cross directions. They could also add further details, such as ‘A mother pushing a pushchair along, a happy couple, chatting and laughing, a…
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🙂 Good afternoon, or whatever time it is with you! Here is my latest snippet from my published poetry. This one’s from ‘Wrapping Christmas Parcels’ – assuming you’ve had that same sticky tape in a hurry experience that I battle with every year! Children may enjoy adding a verse to the poem about where that…
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🙂 Hello, thanks for stopping by. Here is my latest published poetry snippet. This one is from ‘The Trees Behind The Teachers’ Cars: Summer’, part of a 4-season, 4-verse poem. Your children (family or class) may enjoy thinking up other ways to describe summer trees, or other similes to describe them – ‘like…’. Another snippet…
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🙂 Hi, welcome to my site, or welcome back if you’ve been here before! Here’s my next random snippet from my published poetry: this from ‘Space Has No Ceiling’. Quite a thought, isn’t it, for thinkers of any age! What else hasn’t space got, that our precious world has? Colours? Music? Toys? See what your…
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🙂 Hello and thank you for looking in. Here is my latest published poem snippet, from ‘Mutual Wish’, about friends who each lack confidence in themselves and wish they were each other. As with all these snippets, it could be used to spark a poetry or prose writing session with your children, or as inspiration…
