This is super-easy and highly adaptable to many situations. Grades 2 and Up.
Aims: To get students writing
To use the letters of their names or other thematic device to provide an in-built structure for a poem
Optional: To have students begin rhyming
Materials: paper, pencil, eraser, art supplies of your choice
Procedure: Have students write your assigned theme vertically on practice paper. They then must begin each line with a word starting with the first letter listed there. You can set all sorts of guidelines such as describing words only or making a true poem
They can then rewrite it and color and illustrate it with mixed media or your choice of materials.
Here's my (true story)example:
Sweetest creature, don't mean to boast
No dog compares, not even close
Utter devotion, trusting and dear
Gentle with kittens, with babies? No fear.
Gracious and loving, up to our goodbye
You were in pain, and you had to die.
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