KS3 Poetry: Concrete Poetry: Winter Theme

All students will be able to engage with a winter themed poetry lesson on a cold winter’s day. Students will start by creating a table in their exercise books with extended noun phrases (two columns for adjectives and one column for nouns). Set a timer and display one image at a time so that students can add as many words as possible to their tables. Remind students that snow can be just as fragile and beautiful as it can be dangerous.

For the creative writing task, challenge students to cut a snowflake from paper and write a poem along the lines or create a concrete poem in the shape of something winter related!

This lesson supports learning for creative writing skills and poetry. Consider form, language and structure.