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Today’s featured poetry resource from my TES store is: Midnight Wood Poetry Frame – Yrs 3-5. Click for link. This atmospherically illustrated writing sheet offers four simile prompts for a midnight wood: as dark as, as silent as, as still as, and as creepy as, followed by two lines and extra space for a…
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Hi, Today’s featured poetry resource from my TES shop is: Fireworks Writing + Colouring – easier/harder: £2.00 to download. Click for link. These two exciting firework writing and colouring sheets invite describing words for fireworks, with a simile also elicited in the harder version: ‘They are as bright as____________’. Watch out…
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Hi, I’m featuring one downloadable resource a day here from my store at Tes, with link. Most of my 400+ resources come with price tags, starting at £2 for single items, but look out for freebies too! Plus, you can browse for free, picking up handy ideas for your next poetry or literacy session.…
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Starting today, I’ll be featuring one downloadable resource a day from my store at TES, with link. Most of my 400+ resources come with price tags, starting at £2 for single items, but look out for freebies too! Plus, you can browse for free, picking up handy ideas for your next poetry or literacy…
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FIRE-UP FRIDAY Tips and ideas to fire-up your class of poets! Today’s tip: Warm-Up Chat – and how to steer for poetry prep: Warm up with a relaxed whole-class chat on the given topic of your poem. Perhaps don’t even mention the goal of poetry-writing until afterwards, by which time they’ll be fired…
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FIRE-UP FRIDAY! Tips and ideas to fire up your class of poets! Today’s idea: Ditch pens and paper! Use exciting alternatives for your class poem! Spice up your whole-class poem creation by using novel alternatives to pen and paper! Chalk on flagstones? Why not? Washable chalks will fade away in…
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VALENTINE FISHES The trouble for fishes with romantic wishes and a ring to put on a finger is there ain’t no finger – no LIVE fish finger – only dead ones for dishes. Copyright Kate Williams
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FIRE-UP FRIDAY! Today’s tip for firing up your class of poets: BRAINSTORM ON THE MOVE! Stretch ideas and vocabulary by enacting features of the poem-to-be with your class and inviting accompanying verbs, adverbs, adjectives, images, bringing the concept alive. Works every time for me! EXAMPLES: Ocean theme: All standing…
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FIRE-UP FRIDAY Tips and ideas to fire up your class of poets! Today’s tip: Get your class outside. Never mind the weather – they’ll live! Stretch legs and senses, stimulate circulation and imagination, shake off fidgets, blow away yawns. NB You may like to take a notepad and pen to collect the children’s words…
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Here’s my latest video-poem, up on YouTube today: ‘What I Heard from the Castle Kitchen’: https://youtu.be/vRXopzersAk This little poem of mine contains a dramatic and mysterious story, set in a medieval castle at night. Published in ‘A Child’s First Poetry Book’, Macmillan, 2012. Liven up a wet afternoon, history lesson or poetry session!
Kate Williams 