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We've been researching local myths and legends today. It's inspired 11-year-old Ethem and me to plan a story about a fearsome tooth fairy and one about a Franken-ape!

Not only are my students champing at the bit to read and write poems in our lessons, poetry is also a fun way to learn all about SIMILES and METAPHORS and ONOMATOPOEIA and PERSONIFICATION and just about everything in the English curriculum too!

Good luck to all my students sending off their exciting writing for the Blue Peter Amazing Authors competition. I've enjoyed the wonderful worlds of dinosaurs, aliens, football and the environment.

Here's a great little poetry podcast made for kids. Each week, join a poetry-writing dog, a saxophone playing chicken and other animal friends for rhymes and fun.


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