The theme for these resources is Truth [NPD 2019]

All of the following resources are designed to encourage and support students/writers to write poetry on the theme of Truth. The ideas are not about reading poems and then spotting/commenting on devices used and similar. Hopefully students/writers will share their work, but this is about creating, not analysing.

Some of the resources are still in their ‘NPD’ referencing, but that is only because this wasn’t easy, and not necessary, to change. The erasure text resources are models and templates for this kind of writing. Any reproduced in Word is so that they can be opened and edited in Word.

Resources/Downloads [right click]:

1 Truth Lines

2 Truth Poems – When I

3 Truth Poems – Truth Text Erasure

4 Truth Erasure Text eg

5 Truth Erasure Text eg 2

6 Truth Erasure Text eg 3

Truth Erasure Text in Word

Truth Erasure Text

The Poetry of Truth Quotes

7 The Poetry of Truth Quotes Erasure Text

8 Found The Poetry of Truth Quotes Erasure Text

 

This is another fulsome set of resources on the theme of Change [NPD’s in 2018].

Help yourself and hopefully enjoy:

1 – I Will Change

2 – I Will Change – Student Sheet

3 – The Change in my Pocket

4 – Change

5 – Change – Student Sheet

6 – Search Engine Change Titles

7 – Change Quotes 1

8 – Change Quotes 2 + Mix + Poem

9 – Bowie’s Changes

10 – Bowie’s Changes – Student Sheet

11 – Blue Poet

12 – Blue Mood Poet – Ideas & Options

13 – Teachers Notes

This is a fulsome resource based on the theme of Freedom [the NPD theme in 2017].

There are student/writer notes, models, suggestions, prompts, whole poem sheets, teacher/guidance notes and a short PowerPoint. Dip in and out. Here are the resources:

1 Freedom To

2 Freedom To

3 Freedom To

4 Freedom To

5 Freedom is Randomised

6 Freedom is Randomised SS

7 Freedom is Where

8 Liberty Poem

9 Liberty Poem Edited

10 People of the World

11 A Song poem

12 Freedom to write PP

13 Freedom – TN

As ever, the ‘copycat’ writing ideas I so often provide are based around producing List Poems and I do recommend this approach when working with students/young people [or any age really!].

These don’t need a national focus on a theme and I have re-written what follows slightly if any would like to use them now. Help yourselves:

1-message-cw-ideas-1

2-text-message-list-poem

3-message-to-myself-poem

4-rescue-me-message-list-poem

5-uncorker-of-current-flow-messages-in-a-bottle-poem

As the resources for previous National Poetry Days are still available, I will be posting these while I spend time preparing other creative writing materials for presenting.

Although these were always linked to a particular theme of the year, this does not date them – I will try to remove direct reference to the timing in resources if they exist.

This year’s UK National Poetry Day is on the 1^st October. Its theme is Vision.

It might seem so, but it’s never too early to start thinking about and planning for this. I had posted the following resources on my other blog when considering teachers might then have liked this ‘heads-up’ at a time when they would otherwise be focused on existing teaching, not least for examination groups.

That has all changed. Without detailing the obvious, using these resources now with a range of students could give everyone plenty of time to have writing ready for National Poetry Day – all being well, and we need to be hopeful.

Here are the resources:

1 A Vision in a Dream

2 A Vision in a Dream – TN

3 Kubla Khan poem

4 Kubla Khan images

5 Two Kubla Khan Videos