Poetry

On Valentines Day I went to the conference reading for the love of it in Toronto. There were many different speakers during the day that helped me a lot with different aspects of literacy. One workshop was on the writing process and poetry. The writing process has planning, drafting, revising, research, and learning. There is also a editing, mechanics and publishing involved in writing. However not all of the process needs to occur for each writing assignment. For example not all writing requires publishing. Editing and publishing should not be used when writing in journals. This form of writing should be just be used to write so the students can express their emotions in a free form of writing. When writing poetry we can use the sense of colour. For example the student would pick an emotion and than pick a colour that describes or that corresponds to the colour. Then the students would describe the emotion using their senses. For example: It sounds like... It smells like... it tastes like... it looks like.... than end with the ____(emotion) feels like ____ (the colour). This was one example of a form of poetry that you could do in your classroom.