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Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry

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Title:

Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry

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Overview:

Building classroom community is one of the most challenging yet most important tasks for any teacher, and it needs to be reinforced frequently throughout the year. This lesson gives students the opportunity to be innovative, creative, and expressive while building a sense of community. In this lesson, students explore the genre of acrostic poetry and participate in a shared writing experience with acrostic poems. Using the Internet, students explore and investigate the characteristics of acrostic poetry. They then brainstorm positive character traits about one of their classmates using an online thesaurus and compose an acrostic poem. Students use an interactive online tool to write and print the final draft and then share their poems with the class.

Content Standard(s):

English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	R5. Utilize a writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R5. Writing process Plan Draft Revise Edit Publish Genres Knowledge: R5. Students know: The writing process steps are to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish. Various genres of writing. Skills: R5. Students are able to: Plan writings in various genres. Draft writings in various genres. Revise writings in various genres. Edit writings in various genres. Publish writings in various genres. Understanding: R5. Students understand that: The writing process is a set of steps that make writing easier. There are different categories, or genres, of writing that can be used for different purposes.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	1. Contribute meaningful ideas to discussions with groups and peers utilizing agreed upon rules. a. Elaborate on responses in conversations and discussions. Examples: use precise, descriptive language; build upon previously expressed ideas Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 1. Contribute Meaningful ideas Discussions Peers Agreed upon rules 1a. Elaborate Conversations Discussion Knowledge: 1. Students know: Strategies to actively engage in meaningful discussions utilizing agreed upon rules. 1a. Elaboration strategies for conversations and discussions. Skills: 1. Students are able to: Contribute meaningful ideas to a discussion with groups and peers. Appropriately participate in discussions with groups and peers utilizing agreed upon rules. 1a. Expand their responses to others in conversations and discussions. For example use precise, descriptive language and build upon previously expressed ideas. Understanding: 1. Students understand that: Good conversations occur when participants actively listen, build on others' ideas, and ask clarifying questions. 1a. By elaborating their responses, they are fully explaining, justifying, or defending their responses in conversation, which provides clarity to others participating in the conversations and discussions.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 4	R4. Utilize a writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R4. Writing process Plan Draft Revise Edit Publish Genres Knowledge: R4. Students know: The writing process steps are to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish. Various genres of writing. Skills: R4. Students are able to: Plan writings in various genres. Draft writings in various genres. Revise writings in various genres. Edit writings in various genres. Publish writings in various genres. Understanding: R4. Students understand that: The writing process is a set of steps that make writing easier. There are different categories, or genres, of writing that can be used for different purposes.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 4	25. Explain how the form of a poem contributes to its meaning. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 25. Poem Form Knowledge: 25. Students know: Poetry can be written in different formats. Skills: 25. Students are able to: Identify the form of a poem. Describe how a poem's form helps convey its meaning. Understanding: 25. Students understand that: Poems have varying forms that can be used to convey different meanings.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 5	R4. Utilize a writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R4. Writing process Plan Draft Revise Edit Publish Genres Knowledge: R4. Students know: The writing process steps are to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish. Various genres of writing. Skills: R4. Students are able to: Plan writings in various genres. Draft writings in various genres. Revise writings in various genres. Edit writings in various genres. Publish writings in various genres. Understanding: R4. Students understand that: The writing process is a set of steps that make writing easier. There are different categories, or genres, of writing that can be used for different purposes.

Tags:

Acrostic Poems, centers, Diamante Poems, dictionary, Internet, Poetry, technology, thesaurus, writing

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Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry