💻 Digital Poetry in the Classroom: Using ICT for KS2 Creativity ✨
🌟 Why Try Digital Poetry?
Children are growing up in a digital world — and poetry is the perfect medium to bring ICT and creativity together. With digital poetry KS2 activities, pupils can explore language in new ways, combine words with images and sound, and collaborate online.
Using ICT in poetry lessons helps children:
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Build confidence with digital tools and literacy.
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Explore visual, auditory, and performative elements of poetry.
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Create poems they can share beyond the classroom.
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Combine English with ICT, art, and even music.
🔗 Related: Shape Poems KS2 • Performance Poetry KS2
📝 Examples of Digital Poetry for KS2
1. Calligrams with WordArt
Children type words that describe an object (e.g. sun). Use WordArt or Canva to bend and shape the text into a sunburst.
2. Blackout Poetry Online
Use free tools (or even Google Docs with a highlight/fill tool) to create digital blackout poems from news articles or stories.
3. Collaborative Google Docs Poem
The whole class works on one shared Google Doc. Each child adds a line, creating a “living” digital poem.
4. Video Performance Poems
Record performances using iPads. Add titles, sound effects, or music in simple editing apps.
5. QR Code Poetry Trail
Pupils create short poems and link them to QR codes displayed around school. Parents and children scan the codes to read or hear the poems.
🔗 Related: Fun Writing Warm-Ups KS2 • Creative Writing Starters KS2
🎉 Digital Poetry Activities for KS2
💡 Emoji Poetry
Children create poems using emojis + text. Great for building vocabulary and exploring meaning in modern communication.
💡 Soundscape Poetry
Use free sound apps to layer sound effects (rain, thunder, birdsong) under a recorded poem. Brilliant for performance poetry.
💡 Digital Shape Poems
Use Canva or Word to create shape poems with clipart, text effects, and colours.
💡 Animated Poetry Slides
Pupils create short PowerPoint or Google Slides presentations where each line of a poem appears with an animation.
💡 Podcast Poetry
Record short class poetry podcasts — children read their poems and add a quick reflection about the writing process.
👩🏫 Teacher Tips for ICT & Poetry
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Keep tools simple and accessible (Word, PowerPoint, Canva, Google Docs).
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Focus on creativity, not technical skill.
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Link digital poetry to cross-curricular projects (science fact poems, history voices).
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Showcase pupils’ digital poems in assemblies, on the school website, or at parents’ evenings.
🔗 Related: Narrative Poems KS2 • Poetry for Assemblies KS2
🌟 Final Thought
Poetry doesn’t have to stay on paper. With digital poetry KS2, pupils can combine words, images, sounds, and technology to create exciting new work. It’s fun, engaging, and helps children develop both their literacy and their ICT skills.
👉 Want to see poetry in action? My Poetry Days in schools include interactive, cross-curricular workshops that show children how poetry can …connect with performance, and creativity.
