Poetry Day Ireland, a national celebration of poetry and poets, takes place this Thursday 27th April. With the theme of “Poetry Connects“, schools are encouraged to get pupils reading, performing and composing poetry.
Seomra Ranga has some poetry resources to help get pupils composing their own poetry on the day:
- Funny/Awful Poem – use this poem as a template to write a class poem
- Auto-Bio Poem – this template helps pupils to write an auto-biographical poem
- Poems With A Twist – pupils love writing lots of these short poems
- It Makes Sense – write poems about feelings and senses
- Onomatopoeic Poetry – create poetry focusing on sounds
- Listen Poems – write poems focusing on the aural
- Look Poems – write poems focusing on the visual
- Night Time Noises – write a poem based on the sounds you hear at night
- Alphabet Poems – write a poem on a theme using alphabetical order
- Octopoems – use this template to write an eight-line poem
- Diamond Ranking – write a poem in the shape of a diamond
- Cinquains – template to write five-line poems
