Inspiring Young Learners in Creative Writing through Picture Poems

Dung Phuong Le Than Nhan Trung Secondary School, Bac Giang, VN tntdung3@gmail.com Picture poems combine poetic writing and drawing. They provide young learners a chance to stimulate great creativity by concrete experiencing with visual perspective on the arrangement of words. The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of using picture poems as a tool to inspire deep-thinking among students in writing skill. The data is collected by action research and survey methods. The learners in sixth grade from a junior school in Bac Giang composed shape poems at home as their assignment. The researcher findings show that a total of 20 of the 31 participants (65 %) gave their writing as picture poems. This simple poem form promoted students to engage with language acquisition and their self- expression.Thus, the author suggests that picture poems can be applied not only in writing skill but also in designing effective classroom activities with visual figuration. Keywords: inspire, picture poems, creative writing, visual, young learners