PERSONALLY POETIC Grades 3 - 6
Language Arts

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Learner Outcomes:  Students will create a poem using Acrostic
                                  and notes from their biography journals.

Duration of Lesson:  30 minute class period

Materials:  Acrostic poem format, transparency of Acrostic
                   examples,  biography reading journals

Technology Tools/Courseware:  Overhead projector, Kid Pix CD-Rom,
                   Multi-media computer; data projector

Teacher Notes: 
 

•      Make a transparency template for poetry format if using an overhead.
•      Prior to lesson, set up the overhead projector or data projector.
•      Students will have read a biography of their choice.
•      Students will need to have biography reading journals for notes.
•      Review Acrostic website prior to class and bookmark if using data projector.  Or print out copies of some of the examples from the website and make transparencies.
•     If only one or a few computers are available in your classroom, prepare a schedule    for student use.
•    Have Kid Pix CD program  installed or on discs for each computer.

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Procedures:
     1. Using the overhead transparency or the  introduce the Acrostic format for poem to be
            written.
     2. Give examples of Acrostic poems using format introduced.  [Go to Acrostic Website
            bookmarked prior to lesson.]
     3. Review data from reading biography journals.
     4. Using Kid Pix software, students will write poem using  format.
     5. Illustrate poem using Kid Pix.
     6. Compile poems as a class biography/poetry book.

Modifications:

•      Assign reading buddy to help with reading or poem format.
•      Tape record poems to be written by peer.

Enrichment Activities: 

•      Students create a cinquain poem about a character in a biography they have read.
•      Students create a Haiku poem about character in a biography they have read.

Evaluation/Assessment: Rubric Assessment
 

WV State and National Standards:
West Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives:
Reading:  3.34, 3.43, 3.62, 4.51, 4.72, 5.126 , 5.128, 6.121, 6.118
Language:  3.59, 3.62, 4.51, 5.56, 6.115,
Computer/Technology:  3.85, 3.90, 4.101, 4.98,  5.18, 5.186, 6.155, 6.160
Art:  3.5, 3.17, 4.12, 4.18, 4.19, 5.15, 5.18, 6.14, 6.20

References

Authors:
Diana Burns
Cheryl Osborne
Linda Whitman
Bradley Elementary
210 Bradley School Road
Mt. Hope, WV 25880
304-256-4605

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