Do you want to make poetry so fun and engaging that your students will ask for more? Here are some simple activities to get you started. Blackout Poetry. There are so many reasons blackout poetry is great: kids love it, it's creative, and it forces you to clean the falling-apart books from your classroom library without the guilt of tossing them in the trash.
What is blackout poetry? It's simple. Rip out the pages of old books. Give the students some basic instructions, then watch the creativity flow! Sample Instructions:. Blackout Poetry Examples:. Poet VS Poet. College basketball's March Madness is the perfect time to pit poet against poet for some exciting classroom debates, but any time of year teachers can create a similar feel by putting poets head to head and comparing their power.
Kids love competition. Creating competition with poetry naturally adds excitement and connects a sometimes intimidating genre with something familiar. How do you implement a poet vs poet match up in your classroom? You could use an already created tool see Poet Vs Poet here or create your own match ups.
For example, after a simple lesson on figurative language, ask your students to read the poetry of two different poets and rate their use of metaphors, similes, personification, and imagery. As a class, debate the poet's ratings using text based evidence. If you are at all familiar with the basketball brackets of March Madness, poetry brackets work the same way and you can find and download blank brackets by doing a simple Google search.
I like to start with a sweet sixteen of poets, then narrow down to an elite eight, a final four, a championship, and a winner. Poets advance by having classes vote on the better poet in each match up. The reward of listening to kids debate poet's skills like the poets are athletes is worth any time it takes setting up this activity. Found Poems. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads.
Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Share Flipboard Email. By Olivia Valdes. Olivia Valdes. She has been with Dotdash since Learn about our Editorial Process. Turning a boring piece of text into a poem. While reading To Build a Fire , I found a full page that of snowy, cold landscape description that I knew would be just perfect for a blackout activity.
The assignment was to black out words from the passage so that the remaining words would represent the mood of the story. I told my students that they could do theirs digitally or on paper I just make copies of the text. Surprisingly, all but one chose paper.
Have students come up with certain nouns, adjectives, and verbs to fill in the blanks. Then students can read the original poem and platform in to discuss word choice. Follow my blog with Bloglovin.
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