
Banda Pear
Overview
Inspired by Shel Silverstein’s Runny Babbit and his topsy-turvy adventures, ECP presents Banda Pear, our own panda bear character of mixed-up sounds. In this creative writing and publishing workshop, students will write poems about what Banda Pear does, and then have fun playing with sounds and flip-flopping the sounds around!
Learning objectives
Specific to this workshop:
- Collaboratively create and develop a character to feature in a collection of poems
- Learn about the poetic device of spoonerisms
- Review and apply phonics knowledge
- Explore rhythm, rhyme and repetition
- Be introduced to ECP process of writing and revising
- Stretch creative thinking and take creative risks
- Experiment with new techniques, devices, structure and text types
- Improve writing skills through individualised feedback from the teacher
- Practise proofreading and editing skills
- Develop creativity and collaboration through a workshop environment
- Learn to look at own work critically and consider how to improve it
- Learn to be open to and respond to constructive feedback
Creative Writing & Publishing
For children aged
6 to 8
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