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Acrostic Poetry

Acrostic Poetry. Lacia Howell & Meagan Owen ECED 4300 A Dr. Tonja Root Spring 2008. Lacia Howell Prewriting Acrostic Poetry.

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Acrostic Poetry

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  1. Acrostic Poetry Lacia Howell & Meagan Owen ECED 4300 A Dr. Tonja Root Spring 2008

  2. Lacia HowellPrewriting Acrostic Poetry • GPS: ELA3R3 The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text. The studentn. Identifies the basic elements of a variety of genres (fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry). • PLO: The student will identify elements of an acrostic poem and use a graphic organizer to think of ideas to make their own.

  3. Form of Writing • Acrostic Poem • What is an acrostic poem? An acrostic poem uses letters in a topic word to begin each line. All lines in the poem should relate to or describe the topic word.

  4. Example of Acrostic Poem Shines brightly Up in the sky Nice and warm to my skin Read Write Think. Retrieved February 29, 2008, from http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/Acrostic Poem Generator also found on the above website to be used as an extension or to enhance technology in the classroom.

  5. Acrostic Graphic Organizer Think about: Topic, Audience, Purpose, & Format

  6. Stage of Writing • Prewriting • Think about your audience: your classmates • Think about your purpose: to entertain or to inform • Format: acrostic graphic organizer

  7. Practice Activity for Prewriting • Ask students to choose a topic: “Today, our topic will be the season, Fall.” • The teacher and student will use the acrostic graphic organizer to write ideas about the topic, Fall. • Brainstorm a list of words, ideas, or phrases that describe the topic word and write them in your organizer. You will want some words or phrases to begin with a letter(s) from the topic word.

  8. Assessment Activity for Prewriting • The student will complete an acrostic graphic organizer to later use during drafting. • Topic: Your name.

  9. Meagan OwenDrafting Acrostic Poetry • GPS: ELA3R3 The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text. The studentn. Identifies the basic elements of a variety of genres (fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry). • PLO: The student will write their own acrostic poem using their acrostic graphic organizer he/she used during prewriting.

  10. Stage of WritingDrafting • Acrostic Poetry is formed by writing a topic word vertically down the page • Each line will start with one letter from the topic word • Each line must begin with a capital letter • May use one word or a phrase • Does not have to rhyme • Use adjectives and phrases that describe the word

  11. Practice Activity for Drafting • The teacher and students will write an acrostic poem together using the acrostic graphic organizer from prewriting. • Let students give you some of their ideas about the season, Fall. • Transcribe the students’ ideas in the form of acrostic poetry, while they dictate.

  12. Assessment Activity for Drafting • The students will use their prewriting graphic organizer to write their own acrostic poem. • Students will complete their acrostic poems on construction paper. • Each poem must describe the students’ name and be written vertically down the left side of page. And each letter in the vertical word must begin the next line.

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