 I always had so much fun teaching poetry to my students, even my hesitant writers enjoyed the sense of accomplishment they got from writing a poem. I created this poetry packet because it is so easy on the teacher! Most of your upper elementary, or middle school students will be able to write these 10 poems with very little assistance. Each poem has directions as well as 2 examples. I leveled the examples, one is more basic and one is more advanced. You can edit this document (the whole packet is a Google Doc so 100% editable!) to include one example or the other, or instruct certain students to follow the first example and others to follow the second example, depending on their writing abilities.
The 10 Types of poetry are taught in this packet:
There is a rubric included at the end in case you want to use it for grading, and again, you can edit it to better fit your reporting system. You can end the fun there, the students have written 10 personal poems! Or you can take it a step further... I would have my students complete the packet for a grade using the included rubric, and then I would have each student choose their favorite poem for the class book! If you are interested in the class book this is what I did: 1. Order hardcover blank books-one for each student and the teacher(s) 2. Have each student select their favorite poem, then type & print it 3. Students illustrate their poem using pencil only 4. Teacher copies each student's poem enough for each book purchased. 5. Student gets a pile of 25ish poems to color in their illustration using crayons or colored pencils (markers would get too messy and bleed through the paper). 6. Students then cut out their poems and has a stack of 25ish, cut and colored. 7. Students make a line around the room and carefully place one poem on each student and teacher desk. 8. Everyone now has one poem per person in the class, it is time to use glue stick and glue one poem on each page 9. Decorate the covers of the poetry books 10. Display at Open House and now students have a wonderful memory of their time in your class! No matter how far you take this activity, I hope you and your students love using it! My hope is that is is very user friendly for both the teacher and the students! Enjoy! ♡
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