PowerPoint introduction to writing a clerihew, with scaffolded sheets to support pupils in creating their own clerihew.
Clerihews are 4-line biographical poems invented by Edward Clerihew Bentley that have two rhyming couplets. These can be easier for pupils to master than limericks as a clerihew doesn’t have any rhythmic requirements. Lines can be short or long.
The PowerPoint contains seven example clerihews (Ada Lovelace, Mr Beast, Walt Disney, Katherine Johnson, Wallace and Gromit, Doctor Who and Taylor Swift) and an excellent one by Paul Cookson. A guided example based on William Shakespeare supports pupils’ understanding of the structure and creation of a clerihew.
The PowerPoint and scaffold sheet can be adapted to remove names that may be unfamiliar to your pupils and still leave a number of examples that will remain relevant.
This has been used in a number of Year 4 classrooms and has proved accessible and enjoyable to the pupils.
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