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Hi, here’s my next recommendation for helping your children to get poetry-writing: Tip 7: Celebrate Sounds My previous tip focused on the visual – offering picture stimuli in various ways, but many children respond strongly – perhaps more – to sounds. So open the window and listen together, or better still, go outside and stand…
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Hi, and thanks for looking in! Teach Poetry Tip – or Suggestion – 6: Use pictures to stimulate ideas and language Pictures take the formality and fear out of poetry-writing for less confident children, also providing a focus point to spark ideas and push off from. Show pictures relating to your chosen poetry theme, to…
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Hello, thanks for looking in! Here is my Teach Poetry tip 5: Do a Wordy Warm-Up Stretch language through fun brainstorming challenges before embarking on poetry proper with your class. This is best with a given theme – also relevant to your poetry-writing plans. Lead by example Set an example by using rich, expressive language…
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Hi, this is my new, daily Teach Poetry blog, with tips from my own findings as a poetry workshop leader for schools. Tip 4: Take the scary out of ‘poetry’ Often, when I enter a classroom, an anxious child will step up to warn me that they aren’t very good at poetry, or ‘can’t do’…
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STOP PRESS! My new book – Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Amazing Animal Poems – publishes on 9th January ’25. Publisher: Otter-Barry Books. It’s the squawk of the town! 🦜 __________________________________________________________________________________________ 🙂 Hi, here is my Teach Poetry Tip No. 3, in my new, tried-and-tested, daily series: Today’s tip is: Start fresh! Ensure your…
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🤨 Sorry – no tip today!Hi, and thanks for your visit. I’ve been away from home today and unable to post here unfortunately. Next Teach Poetry Tip coming tomorrow. Meanwhile, you’ll find lots of tips, ideas, and poems to spur creative writing or provide starter lines for poems, in these archived posts and across my…
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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…
Kate Williams 