The value of Sticky Poems in the classroom:

• Encourages pupils to think about stories and poems.
• Helps pupils to develop knowledge of the conventions of writing.
• Encourages opinions and thoughts.
• Demonstrates that writing poetry can be fun.

Skills used:

Sticky Poems ustilise a variety of skills; sequencing, sorting, grouping; analysing, comparing and contrasting, planning and making decisions to name just a few.

Putting poems back in to sequence can teach children about texts and how they are constructed.

Suggested activities:

• Take known poems and let your pupils create their own from the mixed-up words. Then discuss the similarities between their own poems. How close are their poems to the originals and how close are their meanings?
• In a de-sequequenced poem, pupils look for clues in the rhyme pattern and consider the poems’s meaning.

The Sticky Poems:

Daffodils - William Wordsworth (verse 1)

The Tiger - William Blake (verses 1, 2 & 3)

If - Rudyard Kippling (verse 1)

Baa baa blacksheep

Doctor Foster

The cat and the fiddle

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