Poetry with Pizzazz
Practicing Poetry Structures (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 2: Consolidation / FluencyStage 3: Literacy for Growth
Ages:
7-10
Grade Range:
2nd 3rd 4thFood Groups:
Primary:
Text Structures & Genres
Transcript
As a follow up to studying the poet of the month, the children are involved in writing their own poems. It's an exciting process of putting words together. Do they rhyme? Are they silly? Are they funny? Are they serious? Are they for an intended audience? Writing poetry can be just as much fun as studying it.
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Activity Objective
The goal of Poetry with Pizzazz: Practicing Poetry Structures (Virtual Tour) is to encourage students to think about the purpose of their writing and explicitly teach the features and structures of different types of poetry.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Read, study, and write a variety of poetry structures including acrostic, rhyme, cinquain, free verse, narrative and Haiku.
- Display the poem of the week/month in a pocket chart to review poetry structures.
- Have students share poems they write with an audience using the author's chair.
- Display students' poems on a bulletin board as an open book of poetry.
- Collect copies of poems being studied and poems written by students in folders or booklets.
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