The Poetry Kit: Games to get your poems started [Game]

Celebrate the power of poetry! Play with words and spark imaginations with this fun activity kit.

• Make poetry fun:This activity kit is packed with games and activities—discover all kinds of ways to start writing poems
• A compendium of literacy games and activities:Create endless poetic combinations with over 500 word cards! Spin the spinner for linguistic techniques and use the activity cards to start your poems off
• Edutainment for children aged 6–9:Inspire your child’s love of language and give them the tools they need to express themselves and succeed in school—and in life!
• Learning through play:Developed with the help of kids, parents and teachers, this kit contains 500 word cards, 12 double-sided activity cards, 28 rhyming dominoes, a poetry spinner, and a rules and inspiration booklet

Pick from more than 500 word cards to build your own poetry creations, with endless combinations. Twenty-four games and activities provide all sorts of ways to start your poem, from acrostics and rhyming dominoes, to concrete poems and consequences. Spin the letter spinner to randomize the poetic fun, oruse linguistic techniques like metaphor and simile to take your poetry skills to the next level.

This poetry activity set contains:500 word tiles, 1 letter/MORERAPS spinner (MORERAPS = Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Rhyme, Emotion, Repetition, Alliteration, Personification, Simile), 12 cards with 24 activities, 1 rules and inspiration booklet for Poetry Play with 1–6 players, aged 6–9.

Packed with poems and games fromCarnegie medal-winning poet Joseph Coelho.

Multi award-winning authorJoseph Coelhois one of the UK’s most prestigious writers for children: he won the internationally renowned Carnegie Medal for Writing withThe Boy Lost in the Mazeand was selected to be the Waterstones Children&rsqulƒ3