Volunteer students share their poem and reasons for its appeal with the class. The teacher leads the students through the various ways a poem makes its appeal - eg. The students take a copy of their poem. Underneath it, they write why they like it. Writing a poem individually, using a group experience and ideas.
Students use the words from the brainstorm to create a poem.
The focus is on putting the words together to create word pictures. Students can, if they wish, develop these word-collection poems using more of their own ideas and creativity. Students shape their poems into a form of their choice, to share the feelings and images associated with the poem. First drafts are discussed in pairs and groups, edited and re-worked. Students draw on the same recollection to write a short feature or letter to inform their audience or set out a point of view that arises from the experience.