Poetry Made Easy – Investigating poetic language and forms – Ages 8–11+

Uses Bloom’s taxonomy

Poetry Made Easy is a lesson-based, concrete strategy that follows Bloom’s taxonomy (from the simplest to the most complex) and thus brings concrete thinkers into the world of abstract thought.
 

Features:

• poetic language e.g. similes, metaphors and imagery
• writing poetry e.g. narrative poetry, collage poetry and haiku
• the worksheets contain definitions, directions, examples and discussion suggestions
• activities are concrete in structure but encourage creativity