Poetry Prompts
- Critical & Creative Thinking
- English
- Humanites and Social Sciences
- Literacy
Poetry Prompts
Practice your observational skills, explore historical objects and learn to write different styles of poetry in this warm-up activity. Come back for weeks 1-7 to learn about Odes, Concrete Poetry, Haiku’s and more.
Poetry Prompts
Curriculum
Year 4
English
AC9E4LY06 – plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation
AC9E4LE05 – create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Year 5
English
AC9E5LE05 – create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced
Year 6
English
AC9E6LE05 – create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices
Year 7
English
AC9E7LE07 – create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts
Year 8
English
AC9E8LE06 – create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects
Year 9
English
AC9E9LE06 – create and edit literary texts, that may be a hybrid, that experiment with text structures, language features and literary devices for purposes and audiences
Year 10
English
AC9E10LE08 – create and edit literary texts with a sustained “voice”, selecting and adapting text structures, literary devices, and language, auditory and visual features for purposes and audiences
Where to next?
Explore the connection of objects and poetry further with these Poetry Reflection Cards
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