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kids poetry workshop advice please
Our writing group has a stall at a community festival next weekend. We're doing stuff to promote our beach theatre show. I want to get some kids to write pirate poems. Haven't done anything like this before. Anyone got any tips on getting children to write poems on specific themes.
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I think at a stall you will struggle as their attention is not going to be on you, and they might wander off and come back which won't help if you are trying to get 'how to write' info across. I'd go for as simple as possible.
And the simple form poem that Liz suggests - write it HUGE on a board so they see it as they pass and the need to add to it sinks in subliminally.
then letting them choose from flash cards: wear..., eat..., sail to...., in a..., with..., sleep..., chase... etc