24 digital interactive poetry activities for students to play with language, understand form and structure, and be creative. These activities are suitable for rotating stations, bell-ringers, one-time lessons, and so much more! ALL DIGITAL in Google Forms™! NO PREP!

PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• 24 Google Forms™ with 24 distinct themed-writing activities
• Students each write 4 lines of poetry based on customized theme images in headers and following prompts for different lines of poetry (rhyme, simile, hyperbole, personification, sensory images, particular structure, etc.)
• FULL Teacher and Student instructions - NO PREP!

TOPICS:

Animals

Basketball (use in March as kick-off for a poetry March Madness)

Beach

Black Cats (great tie into Gothic poetry/fiction)

Books and Reading (assess students about reading or tie to First Chapter Fridays)

Candy

Celebration or Birthday

Cheese (This one always brings the laughs!)

Dinosaurs

Fall

Friendship

Goodnight, Sleep Tight

Halloween

Love (focus on self-love rather than romantic, use for Valentine’s Day)

Math

Mermaids & Mermen (minds on for lesson on fake news)

Phones (minds on for discussion about phone addiction)

Remembrance Day/Veteran’s Day (focus on honoring memories and hope for future)

School (great for back-to-school ice-breaker)

Space

Spring

Summer

What Are You Reading? (version of a book review)

Winter (complete all four seasons at same time = minds on for comparison work)

Each activity is set up as its own Google Form™ that after students submit their lines the teacher can export to share in digital formats.

HOW TO USE IT?

• In a poetry-specific unit. I use it as a way to break through students' discomfort with analyzing poetry. I find that trying to create their own poems demystifies poetry enough that they're willing to take risks to figure out just what William Carlos Williams is doing with that red wheelbarrow!
• In National Poetry Month in April
• On random days throughout the year so students explore form & play with words. Choose 2-3 themes and have students rotate through the Forms to create super poems. Next time you offer, switch up which students write for which poems and build on previous version or create something brand new. LOTS OF POSSIBILITIES!

NOTE: Links to Google Forms™ in START HERE files.

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