Today's Classroom Activities :

Fun Poetry Activities

Everyday Poetry
Reading/Writing Collect used greeting cards. Divide them by types of poetry and discuss if the poetry styles vary depending on the sentiment of the card. Send students to a cooperating card shop to undertake the same kind of research. Then have them each write a poem for use on a greeting card.

Acrostic Poems
Students use an interactive tool to understand and write an acrostic poems.

Diamond Poems Across the Curriculum
Students build vocabulary skills, teach parts of speech, and have fun with diamond poems!

Poetry Race
How fast can your students say this tongue twister of a poem?

Stage a Poetry Slam!
Students participate in a classroom or school-wide poetry slam. A poetry slam could also serve as a fund-raising activity or parents night event.

Choral Poetry
Students will learn how to write a choral poem and experiment with different types of choral reading. Then students will learn how to understand and apply expression, fluency, and rhythm when writing and reading poetry.

Poetry: Sound and Sense
In this lesson, students share their personal definition of poetry and challenge and revise that definition as they read poems from selected authors. In addition to reading poetry, students listen to poems to examine how the sounds of language are used to create meaning and mood. Students then write their own nonsense poem using common poetic devices, such as alliteration, assonance, and consonance. Finally, students write a descriptive poem, share their poem with the class, and write a reflection of their experience writing their own poems.