Writing - Poetry Language Features

We are learning to identify how authors use language features to make their writing exciting for their readers.  

We used this poem from the School Journal to learn about types of words (nouns, verbs and adjectives)  and investigate descriptive language.

Then our writing challenge was to use this poem to write our own 5 sentence poem using two or three of the language features we discovered. Kaiwhare wrote poems about the sea and Mokoroa wrote poems about the sun.

Here is the start of the class poem we crafted together in Kaiwhare.

Have a look at the amazing poems we wrote: