ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an explanation of how and why poets write poetry and gives practical advice to writer-teachers wishing to write their own poetry, followed by a series of class writing project suggestions. These projects include the natural world, animals and pets, sensory poetry, poetry that hides in things, inspired by … poetry, social and political poetry, and an anthology of life. Each writing project comes with an explanation as to why it will be useful for the development of young apprentice writers. It gives advice on how the project is linked to previous or future projects and gives teaching points for consideration. Each project provides teachers with idea generation techniques that the children can use to inform their own topic ideas and finally offers a list of high-quality texts which could assist children’s development in the project.
