National Poetry Day 2012 Stars

National Poetry Day 2012 Stars

<p>NATIONAL POETRY DAY 2012 – ‘STARS’</p><p>Paper Wordstars </p><p> Write letters (on small stars) or words (on bigger stars) and string them together like beads to make lines of starry poems to string around your poetry space or reading area. There are lots of web sites offering instruction in making origami and paper stars. Here’s one: http://www.origami- fun.com/support-files/origami-lucky-star-print.pdf</p><p> Oscar Wilde’s favourite word was ‘vermilion’. What’s yours? Make or buy star-shaped cookies and provide icing pens for everyone to write their most favourite words on. Experiment with saying, singing, chorusing everyone’s favourite words – then eat ‘em!</p><p>Listen to some of our FAVOURITE POETRY STARS</p><p>Are you sitting comfortably? - </p><p> Michael Rosen http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/videos.html</p><p> Brian Moses http://www.brianmoses.co.uk/my_poetry.html</p><p> Classic and contemporary poetry for children by Adrian Mitchell, Kit Wright, Roald Dahl, Allan Ahlberg, Edwin Morgan, Grace Nichols and many more http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/poemsHome.do</p><p> Spike Milligan http://www.bing.com Type in Spike Milligan poems for children</p><p> Benjamin Zepheniah, John Hegley, Roger McGough and more</p><p> http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/ </p><p>Be a Poetry Star!</p><p>Write your own starry poems – See our poetry postcard lesson plans on the Learn pages of our site for ideas. You can make visual poems too: write your star poem in the shape of a favourite constellation.</p><p>Read aloud or perform your poems. Find out how to help perform poems: </p><p> See the poems and presentation section of our Teaching Poetry Handbook</p><p> explore the grand-scale US recitation competition at http://www.poetryoutloud.org/ This site also offers advice on how to organise a competition. </p><p> look at Michael Rosen’s ‘perform a poem’ site</p><p> www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk  Search and vet YouTube clips of Poetry Out Loud performances</p><p> www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk</p>

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