Poem written with Ealdham Primary School, London.
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Write a Rap
Hey everybody shout and clap
Make your fingers snap! snap! snap!
We’ll tell you how we made our rap.
Listen to a range of raps
With sound effects like thunder claps.
First of all you think a lot
Put your ideas in the pot.
Next you jot your ideas down
You can use a verb, you can use a noun.
Hey everybody shout and clap
Make your fingers snap! snap! snap!
Join our Ealdham rap.
Then you read it - out aloud
By yourself - or in a crowd
Edit it, change a bit
Draft, redraft, revise
Try it out
Cry it out!
Try it on for size.
Hey everybody shout and clap
Make your fingers snap! snap! snap!
Join our Ealdham rap.
Show it off!
Share it out
Show them what it’s all about.
Hey everybody shout and clap
Make your fingers snap! snap! snap!
Join our Ealdham rap.
A rap has a rhythm, a rap has a rhyme.
You have to keep to a beat, you have to keep in time.
When you think it’s done, grab a pen.
Check it over once again.
Now you’ve written your own rap
Give yourselves a