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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,Continue reading “This is the Creative Truth”

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 TitlesContinue reading “Creative Change”

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 isContinue reading “Free Freedom Writing Resources”

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.Continue reading “Messaging Creatively”

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 timingContinue reading “Nostalgic National Poetry Days”

This year’s UK National Poetry Day is on the 1st 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 whenContinue reading “National Poetry Day, 1st October, 2020: Vision”