Literacy Resources

I have written several times about Found Poetry. It is a talk for writing activity that allows children to magpie words and phrases from great writers and roll the language over their tongues so that its’ patterns become internalised. It also allows children to combine words in different ways.  This is a high value activity. [...]

I am a big fan of found poetry and have suggested it as an activity several times on this blog.  On Wednesday I read Andrew Motion‘s recent found poem An Equal Voice created from a variety of sources. Found poetry allows us to magpie (I know it’s not really a verb!) words and phrases from [...]