SHAPE POEMS FOR KIDS
Teacher Lesson Plan
Shape Poems for Kids helpteachers in the classroom by providing a new, innovative way to teach their students poetry in the classroom. This resource, part of our larger teacher resources program, is a tool developed by My Word Wizard that educators can incorporate into their lesson plans to teach poetry to kids.
Learning poetry at an
early age can be beneficial to a
child's development. These poems can be used as a starting
point for students by putting a creative spin on poetry. Try
teaching some of the ideas presented below and
then have your students submit their own work to be shown on
My Word Wizard!
Shape Poetry
A shape poem is a good
way to teach poetry to students. To write a shape
poem, choose any
noun with an interesting shape and write a short, one-sentence poem
using alliteration in the shape of that object.
Alliteration repeats a consonant over and over (e.g. 'Betty
bought some butter but the butter was bitter'). Kids love
alliteration and the way it sounds. Shape poems can be used
for a
poetry game to kickoff a poetry unit in the classroom. Children may
even be willing to
share their shape poems with other students in the class!
Examples:
