Literacy Activities to Develop Ideas

It can be useful to think about ways of describing ourselves as starting points for artworks. Ask pupils to bring in a photograph of themselves. Share it with friends and explain something about it. Then ask them to look at it very closely and create short poems using the following frameworks.

The 5 Ws

Looking at your photo, ask yourself these questions to help write down some ideas about your work:

  • When (did you take the picture?)
  • Where (did you take the picture?)
  • Who (is the picture of?)
  • What (is the picture about?)
  • Why (did you take the picture?)

    • Sense poem

    Look at your photo and complete the following:

  • I hear...
  • I smell...
  • I see...
  • I taste...
  • I touch...
  • I feel...