- "I Am" Poem
- "I Am" poems are a great way to get to know kids at the beginning of the year, then pulled out to introduce a poetry unit—"See? You're already a poet!"
- Paint Chip Poetry Example
- I love this activity—writing poetry on colors and emotions. Great for deconstructing how students feel and demonstrating how poetry uses flowery-yet-powerful language. This would be a great example for students I'd project on the board.
- Poetry Scavenger Hunt A + B
- What I love about this resource is that there are two versions, so you can choose which best fits the poem in question, or save one version to be done at a later date (especially if you know you'll have to take a sick day in the very near future). Alternatively, you could give one half of the class one version, the other half the other version, and pair students up to jigsaw the poem.
- Poetry Tools Anchor Chart
- Great anchor chart to project, then blow up and print to hang in the classroom for students to refer to throughout the unit/year.
- What's a Poem?
- The anchor chart to do first before the above anchor chart. I like that the definitions are fill-in-the-blank, so students and teacher can fill it out whole-class. Other personal touches can be added during an introduction to poetry, like the students' own rhymes or examples of onomatopoeia, etc.
sep 16 2014 ∞
apr 19 2017 +