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The Drawing Pool - writing about another person's drawing
This activity has two stages, both focused on the act of looking. The poem describes a real view of a tree. Perhaps it was the rain falling off 'the steady branches' that caught the artist's and the writer's attention. Between the real view and the poem was one child's choice of subject, the effects of the medium, then another child's choice of a particular drawing. Sometimes, as here, the children's writing was influenced by memory and imagination as well as what they actually observed in the drawing. The adult groups followed the same guidelines.
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