They also suggest when revising to read the poem aloud and a lot and listen to the words and how they flow. They suggest having the author close their eyes and re-imagine the poem in their mind being aware of their five senses. Then, add these details to the poem. I focus on imagery and appealing to the five senses in my unit, so this will be an effective tip for my class. The teacher finds a piece of prose, or students can freewrite to music and pick a part of the freewrite to concentrate on.
Students then chop out unnecessary words, take what is left and put it into lines to make a poem.
I like this activity idea although I have not used it yet. It is a good practice of cutting out the words that aren't needed and weight down a poem. It also shows students how poetry can come from prose. In researching poetry writing, I have discovered that revision is an important process to take a piece of poetry from good to great. I have found many useful suggestions to implement in order to make students accountable for revising.