Are your students bored of poetry? Get kids excited with Poet vs Poet basketball style brackets. Students read poems in competitive match ups, rating the poem quality based on the meaning, mood, form, and language the poet uses. Students learn to analyze poetry, and they become obsessed with their favorite poems. My kids LOVE this activity! JUST ADDED: Version Two Poet vs. Poet with even more exciting match ups! I kept some popular match ups the same, but added new match ups like Edgar Allan Poe vs Emily Dickinson. Choose the original Poet vs. Poet or the Version Two! 2020 Update: Digital Brackets! You can now share the brackets with students through Google Classroom. Students can click and advance poets through the brackets. Each poet is also linked to their poem. Students can click and read the poem saving you from printing the whole packet! Poet vs Poet includes two different versions of 16 poems by 16 different poets in flip book form so students can match up different poems, analyze and rate them, and decide which poet advances to the next round. Choose to implement using a printed packet OR share poems using the digital bracket. Everything you need to implement a fun poetry March madness theme is here: Student Guide 16 flip book style poems (Two versions! Choose your favorite!) Digital brackets with clickable links to all 16 poems. Share with students through Google Classroom and display on Smartboards/Projector screens Rubric rating system for students Short answer practice questions based on poetry match ups Teacher rubric for short answer grading Theme, mood, and figurative language task cards PowerPoint copy of the packet and task cards for whole class instruction Letter to the teacher with ideas for implementation and differentiation Bulletin Board Brackets with all of the poems and poets! Track your students' top picks on a class version of the poetry brackets for even more fun and discussion. Enjoy seeing your students toss around the names of poets as if they are their favorite basketball players! Poems included: The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes Songs for the People by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Deep in the Quiet Wood by James Weldon Johnson Songs of the Spavinaw by Ruth Muskrat Bronson After the Winter by Claude Mckay Swallows by Leonora Speyer A Day by Emily Dickinson Alone by Edgar Allan Poe If-- by Rudyard Kipling Passers-by by Carl Sandburg By the Stream by Paul Laurence Dunbar Interim by Lola Ridge Willow Poem by William Carlos Williams To the Thawing Wind by Robert Frost If You Should Tire of Loving Me by Margaret Widdemer Bound by Aline Murray Kilmer Check out another favorite poetry activity: Let it Snow: Winter Poetry Analysis For more on your feet products, check out my escape rooms: The Tell Tale Heart Escape Room Escape Room Bundle
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Learn advanced hand lettering techniques in this easy design tutorial! Discover how hierarchy, composition, grids, and color will help you create beautiful compositions for quotations, song lyrics, and poetry.
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Learn about some helpful ways for teaching haiku poetry in the elementary classroom. Free visuals and writing templates can be downloaded. Technology integration ideas are also included!
Aloha everyone! I was up early this morning and catching up on some blog reading when I came across this great linky over at the First Grade Parade. Just link up with an old post that you think is worth sharing again. What a great idea, since my creative brain in on vacation at the moment! This is a post I originally created on 11/28/12 I wanted to share a little activity with you that I did this week in my class. We have been working on parts of speech and the kids have nouns down pretty well, but adjectives are still giving them some trouble. I decided to use our Writer's Workshop time to write some Acrostic Poems. I started out simple and just decided to use our names. We pulled out the Thesauruses and Dictionaries and I let the kids get to work. They loved looking through these and coming up with new words. Many of my higher students found some great words and were so helpful to some that were having a harder time finding words. For those who were having trouble or writing words that didn't make sense I kept using this sentence "Child's name" is so _____________. So when they wrote down a word like "fire", I would say " Oh, Jeff you are so fire." Of course they all giggle and then Jeff would go back and find a better describing word. I was really happy with how well their poems came out! I was so excited to get them all hung up and they were just as excited to share what they had written. I honestly helped only a few students who were struggling with this activity. The rest was all on their own, with the help of the dictionary or thesaurus. I created the templates that they wrote their final copies on. There are 3 different templates. If you would like them you can grab them in Google Docs. Thanks for hosting such a fun linky Cara! Don't forget to surf on over and link up! Just a quick reminder too, all my Surfed themed items in my TpT store are on sale today.
Most of us probably start off with the same few examples when we are describing to our students what it means to "make inferences"...or "to infer" something... If Johnny walks inside with a heavy coat on...what can you infer? Kids: "It's cold outside!" If Jane has chocolate between her teeth...what can you infer? Kids: "She just ate something chocolatey!" Then we move on and ask our kids to infer on a deeper level...but what text should we use? Most stories or reading passages do not require kids to infer very much, if at all. Details are usually given away in the setting or the things the characters say/do. This is where poetry becomes my favorite way to teach inferences! WHOLE GROUP ACTIVITY: I start with the poem called "January" by John Updike. Click the photo below to download the PDF version of the poem. To begin, I cover each stanza of the poem separately with a post-it note. I do this because this poem is on the difficult side, and I want the students to focus on one stanza at a time. When you receive a poem, it is super hard not to read the whole thing at once! "Chunking" is best when you are introducing something new or difficult to your students. We've all heard about putting the information into "digestible bites", right?! ;) Too much professional development for me... I also hand out this "Making Inferences with Poetry" sheet. We will use this throughout this entire lesson. I start by modeling with the first stanza, and the kids follow my lead. They become more independent and willing to share their ideas as the lesson continues. I model using the document camera or by creating an anchor chart with them while they write on their own paper. Click the photo to download the PDF version of this worksheet. In the first column, the students will write the exact line from the poem that they are going to think about; for example, "Fat snowy footsteps track the floor" (from the second stanza). In the second column, the students explain their prior knowledge on the topic...what do YOU know about snowy footsteps tracking the floor? Example answer: I know that if you walk through snow outside, you will bring it in on your shoes when you come inside. Last, the students fill out their inference column. What can they infer based on that line? Example answer: There is snow on the ground outside! This is a WHOLE GROUP lesson, and is definitely difficult for students to try on their own. Some of the lines of the poem could be trick (especially for my South Floridian students who don't experience winter at all!) A fun extension to this activity would be to have had the title missing from the poem before the students receive the copy - have a contest to see if any group can get close to guessing the name of the poem! I had a group guess "December" this year...pretty close! PARTNERED ACTIVITY: For the partnered activity I choose a "fun" poem. A poem that uses imagery to set a scene in the students' minds is a great one for inferencing. This year I used "Abandoned Farmhouse" by Ted Kooser and the students LOVED it! Super spooky and they loved the extension activity I had them do after we inferred! You can find "Abandoned Farmhouse" by Ted Kooser by clicking here. Students went line-by-line making inferences about what the author was trying to say in the poem. What does that mean? Who are they talking about? What can you infer about the setting or the character? They had to write their thoughts next to each line of the poem as they read. This was fun for them because the poem has a spooky side...which all kids love! When I was walking around during this portion of the lesson, the students were even arguing (in a friendly way!) a little bit about what they inferred from each line! I actually LOVED it because they were voicing their opinions and felt confident in their thoughts/ideas. I extended the activity the next day by having the students write the last stanza to the poem. We called this the "missing stanza" because it seems Ted Kooser's poem does not have an ending. The students created their own ending stanza and then illustrated it! It was super fun! We were able to talk about mood and tone as well, because the students had to try to stay in the same mood/tone as the author in order for their stanza to "fit in" well with Ted's poem! At the end of this lesson, we learned that sometimes different people infer different things based on their prior knowledge. It is important to listen to other's ideas so that you can see their perspective and how it is different from yours. Thanks for reading :) I hope you find this useful! Bridget
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Acrostic Poem Templates Templates for 4-9 letter words Enjoy!
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Dieses Buch bietet die Möglichkeit, sein Leben in insgesamt 100 Listen festzuhalten. Mal sind es Top-5-Listen, mal Top-10. Man kann Erinnerungen sammeln, Pläne für die Zukunft schmieden, Interessantes über sich selbst herausfinden oder einfach auch mal über sich schmunzeln. Nimmt man das Buch später in die Hand, kann man überprüfen, ob man immer noch…
Portrait of the french poet using one of his manuscript poems. Generative calligraphic collage. www.sergioalbiac.com Facebook page
Hey Friends! I just wanted to pop in and share a fun little packet I just finished! I created this to help our littlest learners with their letter identification. Each page has a secret hidden uppercase letters. Students will choose two colors for the color code that will ultimately reveal the secret letter. You could […]
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