POETRY_WORKBOOK
INDEX
About this book
About Windows Workshops
About the workshop games

SIMPLE STARTS
Amazing PushPoem Machine
Shoveha'penny
Springboard
Pete's Powerful Poetry Pipes
Fishing for Words
Tom Phillips Game
Maze
The Bomb
Presents
What's in the box?
The Great Escape
Expanding Words
Hear here!
Going Round in Circles
Open the door!
Anagrams and Acrostics
Shaping Up

BASIC CRAFT
Rhymeboard
Pocket Rocket Primary Rhymer
Rhyme Forms
Rhyme Forms2
Nursery Rhymes
Limericker
Aboard the Pentameter
Wet, Wet, Wet
Supersonnet
Cooking up a Pantoum
Time to Twist the tongue: Alliteration
What is it, like?: Metaphor
As...as: Simile
Comic Strip: Onomatopoeia

DIALOGUE
How Do you see yourself?
What do you think you're doing?
Where we're at
Who do you think you are?
Voices
City of Poems
Windows on the Mersey
Postcards
Pavement
Birds
World Game

INVENTIONS
Elementary poetry
Phantastic Phonetic Phactory
Boom
Yellow and Purple Prose
Dr. Squint's Colour Co-ordinator
Sensational poetry
A Sense of place

A poem is a fertile egg
Amazing Animals
Word spotter
Encounters
Pirates
Dinosaurs
The World Game-again
Horror
Circus of Calamities
Gardens
Windows in Space
Spells
The Art Game
New nursery rhymes
Other

NOTES
Notes for Playworkers
Notes for Teachers
Notes on being helpful

Welcome to the Workbook...

The web pages in this part of the site contain much of the content of the Windows Workshops Manual which is available in printed or e-book form (see order form below for details) - either will save on phone bills!

The pages can be easily accessed from the side bar index, and,
if a worksheet is used for a game, clicking on view worksheet
found at the bottom of the page will display it.

To clear a worksheet click on clear worksheet

The image is small - the actual worksheets are available in printed photocopiable form or in the Workshop Browser (needs win95) in which
the large graphics required for the A4 sheets are stored in an easily
accessible but compressed format.


Introduction

The Windows Workshop Pack originally consisted of a continually updated compilation of workshop sheets.

The sheets documented each game as it was first played, though some were originally booklets and others were revised on reprint. They provided basic details, ideas and examples of work.
Childrens' work shown on the sheets was selected to be representative, both of ability and style, rather than exemplary.


The book includes most of the games from the sheets, and additionally suggests variations and discusses working methods and problems.

Since new games or variations have been and are constantly being developed by many of the writers now involved with the Project, this book will soon cease to include all the Project's games. However, it is hoped that it will provide a guide to many that have been well tried and tested and that its general information will be of continuing use.


The games, arranged in four sections, are discussed with their uses, variations and place in developing skills. A final section looks at specific aspects of their use in school and community, briefly answering those questions which have been most commonly raised over the years.

Although the games described in this book were created either by myself or Dave Ward, we would like to thank the many writers who have worked with the Windows Project who have contributed their individual skills to the playing and development of them.



Dave Calder
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Windows Workshops © Dave Calder, The Windows Project ,1997,1998,1999