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A POEM A TERM

Writing Poems
& 
The National Literacy Strategy

a guide for teachers:  Year Six

by Roger Stevens

""Poetry should be approached with a sense of fun, 
excitement and discovery."
- Roger Stevens

KEY STAGE TWO

Year Six, Term Two

2. Lost and Found
(Term Two)

Get each child to think of an object that they have lost.

List five places that you might look for it.

Write down where it was found.

The Lost Coin

I lost a pound coin.

I searched in my pocket
In the drawer
Under the wardrobe
Up the chimney
In my shoe

I found it down the back of the sofa.

That's a poem.

The first drafts, however, will probably be uninspiring. So ask your children to think of either a more interesting object to lose or more unusual places to look.

The idea is to get them thinking.

Finally ask them to think of something they might lose that cannot be held - an abstract noun or an emotion or feeling, for example:

happiness
a shadow
hope
friendship
a shooting star

Where would they hunt for it? Where might it be found?

Lost Happiness

When I lost my happiness
I searched the school where my friends had been
I searched the long, hot, summer holidays
I searched my box of photographs
I searched through the words in the letter that you had sent me
I found it in a phone call that I swore I'd never make

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