Witty Words, Awesome Animals: A Poetry Workshop

Kids will use their “poetry toolkits” to uncover meaning and music in a variety of animal poems, then generate their own. Includes an exploration of poetic techniques as well as a look into animal behaviour, habitats, and interactions. For K-4, the emphasis will be on descriptive words, comparisons and repeated letter sounds; in grades 5-6 more specific poetic techniques will be identified and explored (e.g., similes and metaphors, alliteration, consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia). The workshop will begin with an overview of Jen’s early artistic development and the creative process, and end with a Q&A period. In person.

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Explore sounds, rhythms, and language structures; recognize, explore, describe, and compare text patterns; generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience; demonstrate an understanding that animals have distinct characteristics; demonstrate an understanding of habitats and communities and of interrelationships among the organisms that live in them; describe adaptations, including physical and/or behavioural characteristics, that allow various animals to survive in their natural environment.

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