A Slice of Sky

Here’s an idea for experimenting with poetry with you children.This activity involves drawing from your word bank to create a concise poem.

1. Choose an alphabet.

2. Think of a noun ( thing/ person/ animal/place) that you know fairly well. For example, a pair of scissors / Sally a friend at school/ a snake)

3. Then, brainstorm as many words as possible that begin with the alphabet that you have chosen.

4. Now, have a look at your list of words. Select about ten words that are related to the noun you have chosen.

5. Arrange them into a short concise poem.

This is an example:

Snake,

sleek, sinister,

sliding softly.

Steep stairs.

Shimmering ,sparkling

Singing sapphire.

You can arrange the words , using punctuation , to create images of the noun. In the poem above, the words, arranged as such, conjures an image of a snake and of its movement. It is portrayed as something beautiful and mysterious , making its way up a flight of stairs.

That’s the beauty of concision !

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