April is 楼凤天堂 Poetry Month! ReadWriteThink.org!聽As you鈥檙e planning poetry activities during this month (and beyond!) consider using these poetry-focused聽 听补苍诲 .
The 聽helps students learn about and write acrostic poems, a poetry form that uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word. Also available as a .听滨苍 , 聽students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them.
In the聽听辞谤 , users can learn about and write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring).聽Writing, revising, and publishing are just a few of the tasks students will complete in in order to take their cause-and-effect diamante poems from an idea to a reality.
Students can learn about and write haiku using that guides them through the writing process. There is a corresponding .聽Using the Haiku Poem App or the Haiku Poem Interactive, students summarize papers they have written using the traditional format of a haiku in .
The provides an online model for the thought process involved in creating poems based upon a letter; then, students are invited to experiment with letter poems independently. In , students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance.
The 聽explores the ways that poets choose line breaks in their writing. After viewing the demonstration, students are invited to experiment with line breaks themselves. They can learn more in ““.
The outlines the characteristics of riddle poems and provides direct instruction on the prewriting and drafting process for writing original riddle poems. “” has students explore figurative language in poetry by reading and writing riddle poems.
Users learn about and write theme poems, a poem written within the shape of the subject of the poem using the or . “” invites students to select a familiar object online, build a bank of words related to the object, and write theme poems that are printed and displayed in class.
allows children and teens to create 鈥渇ound poetry鈥� by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text. Additionally, there’s an version.聽Use the Word Mover tool to play with word families and listen for rhyme, then sort real and nonsense words, alphabetize the words, and create a story or poem using the words in .
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