Creative Writing Exercises - Leicestershire County Council

Exercise Title
This exercise focuses:
For this exercise you will need: xxxxxx
Section C pxx 70
Warm-ups
xxxxx on giving participants the confidence to enjoy poetry through their own creative interpretations,
and dispelling anxieties about ‘what poetry means’ by emphasising possibilities of meaning
and emotion.
What you do:
For a longer and more in-depth version of this exercise see ‘Reading Details’ in the Longer
Exercises • xxxx section.
• xxxx
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Basic paragraph
Hints and tips:
“Words cascade like a waterfall of syllables.”
Linda Rose, Local Support Worker
Before reading out the poem to participants practise reading it out loud, become familiar with
the poem.
A good first question is: ‘Do you like this poem?’. Try to get participants to focus on this
question and not begin interpreting. Ask them to say why they like or don’t like a poem.
It is very valuable when participants disagree about a poem, whether it be about liking it or
not, or regarding interpretation. Such instances reinforce how poems can be interpreted and
engaged with in differing ways.
Who?
This is for everyone.
If you have a group that ‘takes off’ with this exercise during a workshop, do consider allowing
more time for discussion than you had first intended.
It’s worth remembering that partially sighted participants or deaf lip-readers will often ‘listen’
and interpret words differently from others. This vital difference can make this exercise doubly
interesting.
Exercise given by xxxxxx
WORDS
THINGS&
THINGS&
workshops