Scaffolded Poetry Booklet

This step-by-step guide is designed to help students of all abilities create meaningful, personal poems. Packed with activities that inspire creativity, build confidence, and provide essential writing support, this booklet is the perfect companion for young poets. From choosing a topic to celebrating their final piece, students will enjoy a fun and guided journey into the world of poetry. Complete with scaffolding, sentence starters, and reflection prompts, this booklet makes poetry accessible for everyone!

What’s Inside The Beautiful Truth Poetry Booklet:

Choosing a Topic:
Students start by picking a meaningful topic that resonates with them, such as a happy memory, a challenge they’ve faced, or something they care deeply about.

Exploring Ideas:
Using simple sentence starters and prompts, students reflect on why they chose their topic and how it makes them feel, helping them connect emotionally with their poem.

Build-Up Activities:
Before writing their poem, students complete fun activities to brainstorm and organise their thoughts, including:
Sensory details: Helping students describe what they see, hear, feel, and more.

Describing specific moments:
Focusing on key moments to bring their writing to life.

Emotions and symbolism:
Encouraging deeper thinking through imagery and metaphors.

Writing the Poem:
With two writing options to suit different abilities.

Acrostic Poem: A simple, structured poem format.
Simple Sentences Poem: Guided sentence starters to form a cohesive poem.

Peer Review and Feedback:
Students are encouraged to share their poem with a partner for constructive feedback before making improvements.

Improving the Poem:
Guided by a word bank and prompts, students enhance their poem by adding stronger words, new sentences, or clarifying emotions.

Final Version:
Students write their final poem with pride, using the checklist to ensure everything is ready for submission.

Reflection:
After completing their poem, students are invited to reflect on their creative process and how it made them feel, providing closure to their poetry journey.