I have worked with many children over the years, in and out of schools, some of whom had refused to write anything at all until they were inspired to pick up a pen by my fairy tales about modern children's lives, "Telling it like it is."
I have developed an approach to teaching based on co-creativity where the student and I write poems together.
We start with rhyme and rhythm and go on from there.
It can be enormous fun.
Everyone enjoys a Limerick and that is where we start.
Here is an offering from Tom Walters
The Spider
My auntie is really a spider
So, some people cannot abide
her
She likes to spin webs
With all of her legs
Catching flies that go wiggle
inside her
