Poetry by stealth – creating a descriptive poem
Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Trevor Millum
Main Subject
Category
Poetry: Poetry forms
Resource type
Lesson plan
Teaching ideas
Focus
Writing
A structured writing task to help children write a non-rhyming poem. After writing a brief descriptive passage, they select the best phrases to adapt into a poem. This technique can also be used with passages from books.
Suitable for Y5 and Y6.
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Review this resourceAn excellent resource to show that prose can be reduced to a minimum but still retain the imagery of the piece.
07/02/2019
