4 Poetry activities you can use tomorrow!

My students enjoy writing poetry in my class because it gives them the opportunity to be creative and demonstrate their knowledge a fun and different and fun way.

Here are some examples of using poetry activities I use in my class.

1) Cinquain Poem:  This is an old social studies stand by.  It can be easily used with ANY unit or concept.  Students who might struggle with writing poems also enjoy the Cinquain Poem since it follows a pattern.  But, writing the poem stretches the student's academically as they use words to describe the subject.

2) Acrostic Poem:  Another social studies teacher trusty activity.  An acrostic is a poem based upon a word (or a historical person) written in a vertical line.  Each letter of the word starts the line of the poem.

3)Diamante:  This poem is like the Cinquain poem since it follows a similar structure. But, this poem is written in the shape of a diamond.

4)Historical Person Poem:  Students follow a pattern to complete a poem about a historical significant person.

All these poetry activities are engaging for students.  Also, I sometime have students create color pictures with these poems.  By having students draw a picture is includes another modality of learning.

How to evaluate and where to find rubrics for these activities?  Here are rubrics for ALL of these poetry activities.CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK TO THE RUBRICS.