✍️ THIS IS… Template
POETRY WRITING TASK
🎧 Using words, structure, and sensory detail to create your own powerful poem
🌟 Learning Intention:
WALT: Write a poem using structure, repetition, and description to help our readers picture a moment, person, or place.
🧠 Your Task:
Choose something you want to write about — it could be:
- A season (This is Summer)
- A person (This is My Nan, My Brother, My Coach)
- A place (This is My Street, My Room, The Field)
- A memory (This is the Best Day, This is When I Won, This is Camp)
🧱 Poem Structure (Follow these steps!)
Title Line: This is [your topic]
Line 1 – A sensory detail: This is the [sight / sound / smell / touch] of…
e.g. This is the sound of gumboots squelching through mud.
Line 2 – An action in -ing form: This is the [verb]-ing of…
e.g. This is the buzzing of bees under the tree.
Line 3 – A feeling: This is the feeling when…
e.g. This is the feeling when the sun hits your face after swimming.
Line 4 – A simile or metaphor: This is the [metaphor or simile] that…
e.g. This is the smile that floats like a lilo.
Line 5 – A memory or imagined moment:This is the [memory or imagined moment] where…
e.g. This is the moment where I forgot everything else but the waves.
Last Line – Bring it full circle: This is [your topic] again, but now you know [it, them/ him/ her] better.
🧹 Helpful Starters if You’re Stuck
👁️ Sight: The colour of the sky, how the room looks, what someone is doing
🌁 Sound: Laughter, traffic, birds, music, wind, silence
👃 Smell: Baking, ocean air, cut grass, school bag smell 😅
💭 Feeling: Excited, nervous, tired, proud, calm
🎭 Simile: like a whisper, like a storm, like a balloon floating away
🧠 Memory: A time you remember well — maybe fun, funny, sad, or exciting
✍️ My “THIS IS” Poem
Write your poem following the structure
See above for more guidance
This is [title/topic]
This is the [sight/sound/smell/touch] of…
This is the [verb]-ing of…
This is the feeling when…
This is the [metaphor/simile] that…
This is the [memory/imagined moment] where…
This is [title/topic] again,
but now you know it better.
This is ME😃
This is the sound of ME Laughing About my Mum😆
This is the scenting of Me after I shower🚿
This is the feeling when I am Sad Because of something😭
This is the chair that I sit on and sleep on as well🪑
This is the my bed where I sleep at night😴
This is Me😃 again,
but now you know it better. |