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Poe-TREE Edition
April is National Poetry Month! YAY!
Poetry Ideas!
Blackout Poetry
Click here for step by step directions on how to create Blackout Poems with your students:
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/john-depasquale/blackout-poetry/
Acrostics
In an acrostic poem, a word or person’s name is written vertically down the side of a page. These letters are used to begin each line of the poem. The acrostic, which usually does not rhyme, is written to characterize or describe the chosen word or person.
Click here for more ideas about doing acrostic poems with your students:
Sensory Poems
I see _____________________________.
I taste ___________________________.
I smell ___________________________.
I feel _____________________________.
I hear ____________________________.
Find more examples of Sensory Poems here:
http://www.teachingwithjennifer.com/2013/03/sensory-poetry.html
Haiku
For more example and tips for writing haikus with your students click here:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/printouts/haiku-starter-30697.html
Flower Power
Poetry with FlipGrid
We will put a QR Code on the our Poe-TREE for each FlipGrid video. Then, visitors and students can scan the QR Codes to hear the poem!
Click here to record your favorite poem:
OR...
- bring in a poem you have written before
- bring in a copy of your favorite poem
- write a poem together as a class and/or family
- anything else that will help us celebrate National Poetry Month together!
Nikki D Robertson
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