Your students aged 7-11 are invited to write a poem inspired by anything or anyone! Out Of This World encourages your students to have fun with writing and expressing themselves!
Inspire and motivate your students to love writing, to be confident and passionate writers by unleashing their creativity and giving them a purpose to write.
From cute poems about best friends and pets to those tackling more serious subjects such as bullying or the environment, Out Of This World offers your students the chance to have their voices heard.
It’s time to launch your lesson and create a class of poetry stars with Out Of This World!
If your students need some help, here are some ideas:
Poem Theme Ideas
Poem Type Ideas
1st Prize
Young Writers' Award of Excellence!
PLUS
Every participating school receives a free copy of the book their students feature in!
[Student Prizes] =>Our favorite published poet wins a $50 Amazon e-gift card.
PLUS
Every entrant receives a bookmark and a certificate of merit is awarded for all young writers chosen for publication!
[Tips] =>Discuss similes, personification and imagery with your students.
These are great poetic techniques to bring poems to life – imagery can let readers feel as if they are in the scene the poet is setting, similes create wonderful descriptions and personification can give an identity to unexpected things, such as a child’s toy witnessing a visit from the tooth fairy or how a football feels being kicked around!
Experimenting with these and other poetic techniques is a fun part of the planning and drafting of a poem.
Try making word soup with your students to inspire their poems! To start your word soup you need ingredients, ask each student (or group) to write the following on separate pieces of paper:
• Nouns
• Colours
• Verbs
• Adjectives
We suggest at least 5 of each from the above list, this will make sure their word soup
has plenty of choice.
Making Word Soup is easy, put all the bits of paper in a bowl or box and each student needs to pick 5 pieces of paper out, which will then inspire their work …
Example:
Our theme is winter. Our ingredients are:
• Nouns: snowflake, Santa, hat, Christmas, snowman.
• Colours: blue, white, green, orange, red.
• Verbs: ice-skating, playing, laughing, smiling, wrapping.
• Adjectives: cold, tall, fast, crunchy, sparkly.
Our word soup gave us these 5 words:
snowman, red, cold, hat, fast
and our poem goes like this:
It’s a cold winter’s day,
My nose and cheeks are red
As I’m outside, building my snowman,
I add a hat and a carrot nose to finish,
I hope he doesn’t melt too fast!
When a diamante poem is written it takes on the shape of a diamond. It uses two words that are opposites, which you build the poem around.
A diamante poem is made up of 7 lines using a set structure:
Line 1: Beginning subject
Line 2: Two adjectives words about line 1
Line 3: Three verbs about line 1
Line 4: A short phrase about line 1, a short phrase about line 7
Line 5: Three verbs about line 7
Line 6: Two adjectives about line 7
Line 7: End subject
Star
Bright, quiet,
Shining, twinkling, dazzling
Beacon of light, an orb in the sky
Waxing, waning, glowing
Silent, calm,
Moon.
Move your lesson outside. Let your students be inspired by nature or what they can see outside, perhaps a sunny day reminds them of a special memory which they can share in verse – there’s inspiration all around us, and moving your poetry lesson outside provides a different stimulus for your students. Brighten up your day with a bit of sun and poetry fun!
Sense poetry is a fantastic poetry type that is suitable for all age ranges to explore.
Write a class sense poem on a space-related subject (or theme of your choice), from aliens and rockets to moonwalks and the planets, there is lots to be inspired by.
As a class, think of descriptions for each sense based on your subject – this can be lots of fun as you ask your students what they think an alien would smell like or what a shooting star would taste like!
Encourage your students to experiment with vocabulary and be imaginative – it’s their sense poem and can be as serious, or silly, as they like!
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Congratulations to our school and student winner!
School Winner - Awarded the Young Writers' Award of Excellence
PS 85Q The Judge Charles Vallone School, NY whose students are published in "Out Of This World - Across The USA".
Our student winner is Rachael Snowsson (11), an independent entrant from NJ - her winning words are below.
Your young writer is invited to write a poem inspired by anything or anyone! Out Of This World encourages them to have fun with writing and expressing themselves!
Inspire and motivate your child to love writing, to be a confident and passionate writer by unleashing their creativity and giving them a purpose to write.
From cute poems about best friends and pets to those tackling more serious subjects such as bullying or the environment, Out Of This World offers your young writer the chance to have their voice heard.
It’s time to help your poetry star shine with Out Of This World!
If your child needs some help, here are some ideas:
Poem Theme Ideas
Poem Type Ideas
Our favorite published poet wins a $50 Amazon e-gift card.
PLUS
Every entrant receives a bookmark and a certificate of merit is awarded for all young writers chosen for publication!
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