Poetry: Pictures paint a thousand words

Activities

1. The zoo
2. Faces
3. The seasons
4. Transport

1 The zoo

• Ask groups or pairs of children to choose an animal, find images of it and research relevant information. Thinking about what it looks like, how it moves, what it eats and where it lives, they should write a list of as many words as they can think of associated with their animal. Show them how to group the words in their list in various ways (adjectives, verbs or adverbs for example). Have they thought of any rhyming words? Are any of their words alliterations? Now challenge the children to write a simple four-line poem about their animal, using the words from their list. The following example can serve as a model:

Creepy, crinkly crocodile,