Teacher guide · Creative Lab · Medium · about 32 min

🖋️ Poetry Workshop

Pupils practise creativity and confidence through "Poetry Workshop": Use similes, alliteration and senses to write a poem.

Lesson guide

1. Hook · 5 min
Show the 🖋️ mission title and read the opening: "Which is a simile?". Take three quick guesses.
2. Model · 5 min
Think aloud through the first step together. Use Pixel the Fox's line as your prompt: "Nice! That's an idea nobody else had."
3. Do · 10 min
Pairs work through the 4 steps on screen or on the printed sheet. Circulate and ask "why?"
4. Discuss · 10 min
Use two or three of the discussion questions. Ask pairs to share different answers, not just correct ones.
5. Reflect · 5 min
Exit ticket: one sentence on how they used creativity today.

What was the hardest choice in "Poetry Workshop", and why?
Which is a simile — explain your reasoning to a partner.
Which is alliteration — explain your reasoning to a partner.
Write a 4-line poem about the weather using a simile — explain your reasoning to a partner.
Where could you use creativity outside school this week?
If you did this again, what would you change?

Support: Read prompts aloud, pair with a confident partner, and accept spoken or drawn answers for writing steps.

Stretch: Ask pupils to create their own extra step for a partner and explain the correct answer.

National Curriculum: English: reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar and writing
National Curriculum: English: composition — planning and drafting ideas (KS1/KS2)
National Curriculum: Design & Technology: generate, develop and communicate ideas
PSHE: Health & wellbeing: self-concept, strengths and interests

Pupil sheet

Name: ____________________ Date: __________

1. Which is a simile?
☐ As fast as a cheetah
☐ Cheetahs are cats
☐ The cheetah ran
2. Which is alliteration?
☐ A long snake
☐ Silly snakes slither slowly
☐ The snake moved
3. Match the sense to a description of the sea.
See → ________________
Hear → ________________
Smell → ________________
Feel → ________________
4. Write a 4-line poem about the weather using a simile.