Input: songs, sounds, reading material (other poems, articles, quizzes, letters), images (paintings, photos, video clips),

dramatizations and smells to activate Ss schemata S write down anything/everything that comes to their minds. Then use a template to write about a topic, e.g. love.

Activities (reading and interpretation). Matching exercises: matching poem to themes, feelings, images, songs, music, realia, other texts (stories, notes, other poems) Drawing, acting, colouring, making an object. Asking about the happy or angry words Which line or phrase could be used as a book title. Associations bw poem and Ss life experiences or immediate reactions Patterns

ACROSTIC (based on name or noun/idea) M y regrets are very few A wful episodes I have lived R emind me that life is difficult C hrist has been generous with me O mitting some stumbles I can S ay that my life was and is very nice DEFINITION Love is... A beatiful feeling between two or more people, The fruit of a good friendship, All you need to live, Not feeling, not eating, not even breathing without thinking About that person for whom you are living, A feeling that everybody needs, its food for the soul, Old as the world, eternal as the univers, deep as the sea and Fragile as crystal. SENSES (similies) Line 1 [an emotion or idea] is [one or two colors] Line 2 it tastes like... Line 3 it sounds like... Line 4 it smells like... Line 5 it looks like... Line 6 it makes me feel (like)... CHOCOLATE Chocolate is golden brown and white It tastes like the first kiss that makes you want more. It sounds like crunchy, dry leaves falling on the ground. It sells like a warm memory from my childhod. It looks like the best treasure, a big smile of a small child. It makes me feel like floating on a cloud high over the earth! CINQUAIN (5-verse poem; diamon shape) Line 1 noun Line 2 two adjectives Line 3 three present participles Line 4 four-word phrase Line 5 synonym for noun or closely related noun

PIANO GRAND, ELEGANT SPARKLING, FEELING, BRIGHTENING LOVE OF MY LIFE MUSIC Opposites NOUN A ADJECTIVE A ADJECTIVE A GERUND A GERUND A GERUND A NOUN A NOUN A NOUN B NOUN B GERUND B GERUND B GERUND B ADJECTIVE B ADJECTIVE B NOUN B Granny Old stiff Knitting talking rocking Fragility tears diapers milk Screaming sleeping smiling Cute soft Baby 1) Highlight pattern and how this contributes to create a mirror image where opposite concepts meet in the middle line. 2) T elicitation of pairs of opposite nouns, gerunds, adjectives... 3) The poem can be written in a non linear sequence WORDSHAPES - words shape - shape words

VALENTINE POEMS BE MY VALENTINE! Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you! FUNNY VALENTINES! Roses are red,

Violets are blue, Please dont kiss me cuz I have the flu! Roses are red, Violets are blue, God made me pretty, But what happened to you!