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Third Grade Poetry
Poetry is incredibly personal. Writing poetry is requires thought processing, getting in touch with yourself, using your imagination and perhaps your own personal life to create it.
Third grade students here at Broad Rock took this task to heart this year as they published their very own poetry books! Take a look at the task and some of their completed works! I think you will be pleasantly surprised at their amazing talent!
Third grade students here at Broad Rock took this task to heart this year as they published their very own poetry books! Take a look at the task and some of their completed works! I think you will be pleasantly surprised at their amazing talent!
The Task!
1. Introduce poetry to students using a fun video from brainpopjr.com. Type in "poetry" to the search box and you will be lead right away to the attention grabbing video where your students will be introduced to a variety of poetry forms!
2. Create a booklet. Using 5 sheets of blank paper fold and staple them together to make the booklet. Each student will need their own.
3. Have students create their own personalized poetry cover! Be as creative as you can use magazines to create a collage, crayons, markers, or any other materials you can dream up!
4. Each day focus on 1 form of poetry. I began with acrostic poems. We looked at several different acrostic poem. We used kiddle.com to check them out in a safe and filtered place. We studied how different people created their poems. Allow students time to explore other mentor texts. Students could choose an object, animal, their own names, really anything that they wanted to create their very own poems. I encouraged students illustrate their poems as well, we talked about the illustration and text connections!
We followed each day in this same manner...here are the poem types we studied in order:
Acrostic Poems
Rhyming Poems
Rebus Poems
Shape Poems
Haiku Poems
Cinquain Poems
Free Verse Poems
5. To wrap up our amazing poetry study we had a "poets Celebration". Students participated in a poetry read and each shared one of their poems with the class! We also laid out all our poetry books with a compliment sheet and students took time to browse each others books leaving compliments for the poet. The students really loved taking home their compliments sheet!
2. Create a booklet. Using 5 sheets of blank paper fold and staple them together to make the booklet. Each student will need their own.
3. Have students create their own personalized poetry cover! Be as creative as you can use magazines to create a collage, crayons, markers, or any other materials you can dream up!
4. Each day focus on 1 form of poetry. I began with acrostic poems. We looked at several different acrostic poem. We used kiddle.com to check them out in a safe and filtered place. We studied how different people created their poems. Allow students time to explore other mentor texts. Students could choose an object, animal, their own names, really anything that they wanted to create their very own poems. I encouraged students illustrate their poems as well, we talked about the illustration and text connections!
We followed each day in this same manner...here are the poem types we studied in order:
Acrostic Poems
Rhyming Poems
Rebus Poems
Shape Poems
Haiku Poems
Cinquain Poems
Free Verse Poems
5. To wrap up our amazing poetry study we had a "poets Celebration". Students participated in a poetry read and each shared one of their poems with the class! We also laid out all our poetry books with a compliment sheet and students took time to browse each others books leaving compliments for the poet. The students really loved taking home their compliments sheet!
Photos taken by Heather Johnson