Painting pictures with words

Learn about the art of performance poetry and compose your own slam poem

Student public speaking resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 3 to 6 public speaking

Your students will:

• explore slam poetry

• view examples of slam poetry

• compose a poem

• perform their poem.

English K-10 Syllabus

Stage 2

• EN2-6B: identifies the effect of purpose and audience on spoken texts, distinguishes between different forms of English and identifies organisational patterns and features.

• EN2-10C: thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts.

• EN2-11D: responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own.

Stage 3

• EN3-1A: communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features.

• EN3-5B: discusses how language is used to achieve a widening range of purposes for a widening range of audiences and contexts.

• EN3-7C: thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts.

Collection of student work

• Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.

• Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.

• MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.

• Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.

• Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

• Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.

For further support on how to create these resources

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students through Microsoft Teams

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard