Text types: Texts for fun & leisure

Songs

Twinkle, twinkle, little star 

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.

Click here if you would like to hear this song.

After you have sung this with your students, you can get them to write out the lines of the song in the shape of a star. 

As a follow-up activity, you can help them to write other 'shape' poems about things we see in nature, eg planets, animals, birds, snakes, trains, planes, rockets etc. These ideas can be used to generate the poems which can later be cut out for wall displays or for making hanging mobiles. 

For a PrimeTeach teaching activity which can provide KS2 students with practice in writing a poem about the planets, see:

Creating poems about planets