Riddles

I am at your beginning and your end.

I dog your footsteps

And cannot be shaken off.

Though I fade from view

You are never alone.
So silent that you often forget me.

I am still there,

Your constant dark spy and companion.

John Cotton

Who were the soldiers

tall and erect

who came to your door

while you still slept?

Who were the soldiers

pale and thin

who never knocked

to be let in

but stood on guard

with hats of tin?

Nick Toczek

In our literacy lessons this week, we have been studying poetry and the last few days we have been looking at riddles.

Can you work out the answers to the riddles above?

After looking at riddles by various poets, we set about writing our own. We talked about what riddles are and the type of language they use. We each chose something to write a riddle about and decided this should be something concrete rather than a feeling or emotion. We then brainstormed our word writing down anything that came to mind to do with that word. We tried to think of all our senses.

Next we choose three of the words we had brainstormed and used a thesaurus to find synonyms for these words.

We then tried to use some figurative language (similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia) to describe our word.

Finally we tried to imagine ourselves as our word and write some sentences describing what we do.

We are just at the point of writing our riddles up after our planning so watch this space...