Found Poems

Fun with Found Poetry!

Monday

CJS Monday Club: This week is all about found poetry! There are many ways to enjoy found poetry and this week at writing clubs we will be playing with Haikubes, magnetic poetry and found poetry from cut up words and phrases. Found poetry is always really popular and I think it’s a fantastic way to increase confidence with poetry! Here are a ew examples from the Monday club who really embraced the challenge!

Tuesday

11 Plus Zoom Group: Lots of choices for found poetry today and wonderful responses too. Some chose to find a phrase or line from elsewhere then use that as the title of a poem, and some took words and phrases from around them to construct a poem from. Great stuff!

Bransgore C of E Primary School: Lots of found poetry options on offer today, including cut up words and phrases, haiukbes and magnetic poetry.

Wednesday

Older Zoom Group: Incredible responses to found poetry today from these days. Some poems were written from cut out words and magazines they had around them, some were constructed from random words I’d put into the chat and some used existing song lyrics or lines from poetry to get them going. The results were stunning! Well done everyone!

Younger Zoom Group: A lovely and enthusiastic response to this group too and again a mixture of responses and uses of found poetry. Some were made out of bits in the chat, things they had overheard and so on and some were song lyrics rearranged into something new. They were all super!

CJS Wednesday Club: Found poetry options on offer for this group too and we had some lovely results.

Thursday

Burton C of E Primary School: First time introducing found poetry to this newer group and it went really well, with everyone having a go and getting a poem done. Here are a few.

Tuesday

Tuesday 11 plus Zoom group: This group finished their articles last week so were concentrating on poetry today – a mix of the ‘I Am…’ poetry template we’ve been working with and also narrative poetry. For the narrative or ‘storytelling’ poetry we had some prompts to choose from in order to form mini story/poems. Excellent work from all!

Bransgrore C of E Primary School: This group also finished their articles last week so today we were filling in the ‘I Am…’ poetry template. They really got into this, often asking if they could change a line or two of the ‘instructions’ that start each line off. Many did beautiful personal poems about who they are while some chose to do theirs from the POV of a fictional character or creature! Images below!

Wednesday

Wednesday 11 Plus Zoom group: A mix of template ‘I Am…’ poetry and narrative poetry prompts for this group. Also some progress on amazing Lakeside View stories!

Wednesday 8-11 Zoom group: These guys finished template ‘I Am…’ poems last week so moved onto narrative poems today with some brilliant results!

Wednesday CJS Club: Articles were finished and some of them moved onto found poetry! They’ll do the template poetry next week. Here are a few examples of some wonderful found poetry. There are many ways to do found poetry but today we used cut up words and phrases to create poems and/or inspire ideas!