Magnetic Poetry Year 6

As part of our English lessons this week, Year 6 created magnetic poetry using single
words, which students arranged in any order they liked to create a poem with distinct
topics and themes. Magnetic poems are often found on refrigerators and for these
poems, students used single words that they had to cut out and arrange in a poem.

We have been learning and writing about poetry. We have learned about the structure of

poems, different types of poems, and the way poems are used in our lives. We completed

blackout poems, shape poems and magnetic poems. Blackout poems are when you choose

a page from a book and you select words that stand out to you, and you go over the rest of

the page with black marker (only the words you’re not using), your words should be in order

to make a poem. Shape poems are where you draw a shape, item or object and you have to

make that shape using your poem you have made. Magnetic poems are when you get given

a word bank, and you have to choose words from the word bank and can’t add any words or

letters of your own. This term we have had a lot of fun, creating and learning about poetry.

Alessia R and Natalie B