Poems for the Poet
Sunday Sit, Sip, and “Sync” ~ 4-15-2012
April is “Poetry Month,
and with rain in the forecast,
(It IS April…)
why not help your students start their personal “Poetry Anthologies”.
The website www.readwritethink.org is an old friend,
and can make the task fun and easy.
When searching the theme, “Poetry”, the site offers 163 results,
including online tutorials, templates, and guides to many types of poems:
- Acrostic
- Catalog
- Diamante
- Haiku
- Rebus
- Riddle
- Shape/Theme
- Sports
as well as lessons to identify and teach poetic terms:
- Alliteration
- Assonance
- Metaphor
- Onomatopoeia
- Rhyme
- Simile
Need more help?
offers a list of poems that students will enjoy adding to their poetry collections
and a page filled with “how-to’s”.
It includes a free downloadable Microsoft “Sestina” template that can be used to guide your students’ writing.
(I know! I didn’t know what a “Sestina” was either!)
So, if you’re looking for something fun to teach,
and something fun for your students to learn,
try poetry.
It just sounds like a “Spring Thing” to me…
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