Poetry in motion

We have been writing poems and it has been a lot of excitement and frustrations for some of our writers. It is wonderful to hear the students in my target group questioning each other about the use of figurative devices in poetry such as similes, metaphors, personification and so forth. Words which they did not know much about before the start of this poetry unit. 

In trying to identify which language devices they are using in their poetry writing, we have started to use colour coding. It is a great way to annotate their poems and also challenge their thinking and re-crafting in writing. 

Below is a poem written by Student 3 which he has not completed yet but is looking very promising. His poem is about Planet Earth.