Ingenious Ideas
Posted on Mon, Mar 19, 2012
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World Poetry Day is March 21st! Encourage your students to write poems using vocabulary words and get in on the World Poetry Day fun. To help assist you in celebrating World Poetry Day, here are two ingenious ideas that can get students excited about writing poetry.
The Magnetic Poetry website is a fun resource where students can create a poem or story using a provided word bank. After creating a poem students can save their creations or email them to a friend (or teacher!) As a teacher, you will appreciate that Magnetic Poetry offers various word banks tailored to reading levels- Check out FirstWords, Kids, and Original
Shape Poems is a simple poem generation template that can help get students interested in writing poems. The Shape Poem generator provides four categories that may pique interests! Once students have chosen a category, Shape Poems guides students to identify words that associate with their chosen shape. Once they've completed their Shape Poem, students can save, listen or print their creation.
How will you be celebrating World Poetry Day? Do you have an ingenious ideas?