Drop everything and read
This is the first time I have EVER been in a library. Is there any single more important duty of an English Department, of …
7en live poetry
Our final lesson of the unit, time to give the students a little freedom.
Live poetry production
After recapping our OARSIM acronym, the class are exploring and writing poetry with Concrete Poetry lets you choose or draw a picture …
Roaring success
Word Tamer is an interactive flash-based website where you “tame words and train stories.” It is quite literally a carnival of literary adventures. …
David Didau doesn’t do…
I feel that the saturation of poetry teaching has left its mark – my next tattoo will most like be ‘OARSIM’ – onomatopoeia, …
Getting started, creatively
Writing is never a chore when students get to be creative. I wish that were true, for some students creative writing is …