Activities for writing poetry - Huw Thomas

Each title in the WRITING GUIDES series provides teachers with subjectknowledge and photocopiable activities for shared, guided andindependent writing on one particular genre.Each book has four sections:1. Using Good Examples. Two extracts to explore in shared writingactivities to enable children (and teachers) to develop knowledeand understanding of the text type.2. Developing Writing. Activities for exploring, practising and planningelements of the text type.3. Writing. Projects to help children to put their writing ideasand planning together into written work.4. Review. Ideas and photocopiables to get children to redraft, assessand improve their own writing.The activities in POETRY (7-9) enable children to :* write different verse forms, including list poems, calligramsand shape poems* explore poetic language - alliteration, similes, metaphors, description* experiment with word order* write about a range of subjects* create poems with different rhythms.