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What would your students’ perfect peculiar pet be?

This is a fantastic activity to boost engagement in poetry as you encourage your students to create animal mash-ups, be inspired by their perfect pet or make their own awesome animal to write their poem about.

They can choose any poetic style or techniques to include. Peculiar Pets lends itself to sense, narrative or riddle poems, acrostics and rhymes as well as showcasing poetic techniques such as imagery and alliteration.

You can go paperless and upload your entries on our website or email them to us... or use the Online Writing Portal in our school's online account so your students can type their poems in your lesson! (If you need a reminder of your school's password please email us!)

The presentation that complements the lesson plan is also available as a Google Slide presentation here.

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Only one entry per student, there is no limit to the number of entries per school. Teachers please submit your entries altogether where possible!

Poems can be on the entry form or a sheet of paper or typed (on a computer or in the Online Writing Portal).

Poems must be your students' own original work.

Entries submitted must be on the theme of peculiar pets (this includes all creatures, insects & even imaginary ones!)

Each student's name, age and school name should be included on their entry.

[School Prizes] =>

The school that submits the best overall set of entries in this contest will win The Young Writers' Award of Excellence!

Two runners-up will each receive a framed certificate of merit.

Plus every participating teacher receives a free copy of the book their students feature in!

[Student Prizes] =>

Our favorite 3 writers will each receive a creative writing goody bag!

Plus every entrant receives a bookmark and students chosen for publication will receive a certificate of merit. (Goody bag image is an example, contents may differ)

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Thank you so much to all the schools and students who participated in Peculiar Pets, we loved reading every entry. Congratulations to our winners!

1st Place School Winner - Wins The Young Writers' Award of Excellence

Lafayette Mills Elementary School, NJ
Whose students were published in "Peculiar Pets - Animals of the Imagination"

School Runner-Up - Each school has been awarded a framed certificate

Sunrise Park Elementary School, FL
Whose students were published in "Peculiar Pets - US Rhymes" 

Cherry Hill School, NJ
Whose students were published in "Peculiar Pets - Around the USA"

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