Poetry
Tic-Tac-Toe Project Guide
Each student is responsible for completing three activities from the following choices.
Your three activities must follow the rules of tic-tac-toe (i.e., three in a row).
Locating a poem/oral
Biography
Word Jack
Reading
Go to the following website
Go to the following website and
Go to the following website and read the biography of Shel
click on Word Jack. Read the
and locate a poem that you
Silverstein. After reading the
directions for the game. Play the
like. Write the poem inside
bio, write a short 1-2 paragraph
game against the computer and
your writing journal.
summary about what you learned. record your score and the
Practice the poem
computers score. Write down all
several times and share the
http://www.shelsilverstein.com/a of the words you found in your
poem orally with the class.
bout/#
writing journal.
http://childrenspoetryarchiv
e.org/poems
Mother’s Day Poem
Go to the following website
and learn about an acrostic
poem. Write your acrostic
poem using your mom’s
name. Write your poem
inside your writing journal!
http://www.poetry4kids.com/ga
mes
Read and unscramble
Submit your own Poem
Go to the following website
and read “Writing Riddle
Rhymes”. Then write your own
using the starter clues.
Go to the following website.
Read today’s poem and then
click on write your own poem.
Here you will type in and
submit your own poem!
http://www.poetry4kids.com/blo
g/news/writing-riddles/
http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/
poetry/
Find Rhyming Words
Funny Poetry
HAIKU
Go to the following website
and choose 5 words you are
finding that are difficult to
rhyme. Type in each work
and record the rhyming
words the site gives you in
your writing journal.
Go to the following website
and read your choice of 3 funny
poems.
Choose a poem as a template or
inspiration to write your own
funny poem. Write your
new poem in your writing journal.
Go to the following website and
learn about a HAIKU poem. At the
end of the lesson you will find the
steps to writing your very own
Haiku poem. Create your own
and write inside of your writing
journal with an illustration.
http://www.poetry4kids.co
m/rhymes
http://www.poetry4kids.com/poe
ms
http://www.poetry4kids.com/blo
g/lessons/how-to-write-a-haiku/
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclassdetail.asp
x?LessonPlanID=12