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Stage One
Year
1
and
Year
2
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Mandy Coe
Tiny
(KS 1/2)
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How everyday things become extraordinary depending upon
perspective |
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Andy
Croft
Improvisation
in Rhyme and Rhythm
(all) |
A series of linked, introductory, improvisation exercises for use with
students of any age. |
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Roger
Stevens
Animal
Families
(KS 1/2) |
Imagination and description: if the people in your family were animals,
what would they be? |
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Gavin Stewart
Making
Monsters
(KS 1/2/3) |
The aim of this exercise is to draw attention to
the power of similes |
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Stage Two
Year
3
and
Year
4
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Valerie Bloom
A
Journey Through the Senses
(KS 2)
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Encourages children to use their senses and develop a fresh approach
to writing, with an emphasis on imagination and attention to detail
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Phil Bowen
Favourite Things
(KS 2)
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Converting lists into poems
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Pat Leighton
Group
'Conceit' Poem
(KS 2)
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The idea of a conceit poem is writing about one thing
entirely in terms of another
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Brian Morse
Cat
in the Window
(KS 2)
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A poem about sounds - the ear of the poem is a
cat's, but the point of the poem is the variety of sounds it hears, not the cat itself
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Coral Rumble
How
to Make a Poem
(KS 2)
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A Blue Peter style 'poem-making kit'
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Pauline Stewart
Poetry
Passport
(KS 2)
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This exercise enables a child to describe
themselves in either idealistic or realistic terms - even the least confident child will have
something to say about themselves
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Anthony
Wilson
The
Magic Box
(KS 2)
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Working with Kit Wright's 'The Magic Box'
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| Key
Stage Two
Year
5
and
Year
6
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Roshan
Doug
Rhythm
and Pace in Poetry
(KS 2/3) |
Using songs and popular music to familiarise students with the
concepts of structure and movement of a poem |
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Chrissie
Gittins
Messages from the
Heart Scarab to the Heart
(KS 2/3) |
Working with truth and fiction to create poems |
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Roz Goddard
The
Button Jar
(KS 2/3/4) |
Create a character profile through an imagination
exercise |
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Philip Gross
Great
Titles from the Library of Serendipity
(KS 2/3/4) |
Group work collecting abstract nouns, adjectives and concrete nouns, and the way
imagination grows from chance meetings of words |
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Paul Hyland
Postcards
Home
(KS 2/3) |
Writing about important places, special people and strong feelings |
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Stephen Knight
Simile
and Metaphor
(KS 2/3) |
Brainstorming words and phrases |
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Anjum Malik
In
the Beginning
(KS 2/3/4) |
How to create your own inspiration |
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Mario
Petrucci
Telegrams
(KS 2/3) |
Focus on drafting and editing |
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Eva Salzman
Imaginary
Words
(KS 2/3) |
A close look at language, sound and meaning |
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Fiona Sampson
Developing
the Original Voice
(KS 2/3) |
Simile, metaphor, and the tension between invention and
form |
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John
Siddique
Physical
Poetry
(KS 2/3) |
Exploring the physicality of poetry, of memory and emotion. |
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Mahendra Solanki
Split
Definitions (Make it New)
(KS 2/3) |
An exercise to get students to look at familiar objects
and ideas in new and sometimes startling ways |
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Cliff Yates
This
is Just to Say
(KS 2/3/4) |
Working with William Carlos Williams' 'This
is Just to Say' |
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Key
Stage Three
Year 7
and
Year 8 |
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Elizabeth Barrett
Riddling
(KS 3)
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Raises pupils' awareness, through riddles, of the
following technical aspects of poetry: metaphor,
first person voice, personification
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Liz Cashdan
Writing
Photographs
(KS
3/4) |
Writing poetry as a symmetry for taking photographs |
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Debjani Chatterjee
Working
with Present and Past
(KS 3/4) |
Explores "two consciousnesses", i.e. the
movement of the narrator between their past and their present |
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Eleanor
Cooke
"I didn't know I was so clever" - Images and
metaphor
(KS 3) |
This simple exercise introduces
metaphors, using the familiar shape of a family tree to
make connections and show relationships |
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Jane Draycott
A
Deserted Place : Sound and Collaboration
(KS 3/4) |
Write to sound, sound effects, and collaborative sound
pieces |
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Cheryl Martin
Native
Americans
(KS 3) |
Uses visual stimuli, in this example
hundred-year-old photographic portraits of Native
Americans in full traditional dress, as the basis for
writing poems |
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Graham Mort
Collaborative
Writing and Poetic Form
(KS 3/4) |
Places language problems and solutions in a social
context where they can be shared and resolved in a collective way, including
performance |
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Andrew Fusek
Peters
A
Way Into Metaphor
(KS 3) |
Stages to discover and develop imagery that will
bring poems to life |
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Dave Reeves
We'll
Weather the Weather
(KS
3/4) |
Language exercise - personifying natural phenomena |
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Ann Sansom
Making
an Abstract Concrete
(KS
3/4) |
Choose an abstract and making it concrete by answering
a series of questions; show how tone, tempo and lineation clarify the voice |
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Peter Sansom
Intensive
Writing: View from a Window
(KS 3/4) |
A cumulative observational exercise |
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Dorothea Smartt
Free
Writing
(KS 3/4)
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Working with timed writing (around specific subjects) to encourage
fluency and practice writing without self-censoring.
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