National Council of Teachers of English
Writing Acrostic Poems with Thematically Related Texts in the Content Areas
Scholars scour thematically aligned texts to gather a bank of words they can use in an original acrostic poem.
Curated OER
Acrostic Book Report
Students read the story Wild Horse Winter and construct acrostic poems. In this poetry lesson, students use adjectives and events in the text to develop an acrostic poem.
Roald Dahl
Matilda - The Weekly Test
Readers take the main characters in Matilda and individually describe them through a mnemonic. To get there, group members create an acrostic poem describing the character they were given, and choose one of the words from the acrostic...
Curated OER
Acrostic Poem: Athletics
In this acrostic poem worksheet, students compose a poem using each letter in the word "athletics" as a beginning letter for a descriptive poem on the topic.
ReadWriteThink
Alliteration All Around
Discover alliteration found in picture books by Pamela Duncan Edwards. Then, dive into a read aloud of Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak. This practice sets the stage for budding poets to create their own acrostic poem, write an...
Curated OER
Name Poem
In this name poem worksheet, students will read an example of an acrostic poem and complete a poem map to begin a rough draft of their own acrostic.
Curated OER
A Poem About Sadako
In this poetry writing worksheet students use the letters SADAKO to write an acrostic poem. Each letter will begin the next line of poetry.
Curated OER
Dinosaur Acrostic Poem
In this language arts activity, students use the letters in the word DINOSAUR to begin each line of an acrostic poem about dinosaurs.
Curated OER
Poetic Me
In this writing poetry activity, students discover what an acrostic poem is and how to write one. Students then compose acrostic poems about themselves.
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Acrostic Poem Plan
In this acrostic poem worksheet, students make a plan for a poem using the letters of the word "cycling" as the letters that begin the first lines of each line of the poem.
Classroom Adventures Program
Creating Characters
Examine character in depth. Over the course of these six lessons, learners explore their own character traits, determine the traits of characters in the books they read, practice comparing and contrasting, and collaborate in small groups...
Curated OER
A Center Approach to Poetry
Students experience the different types of poetry in order to classify them. In this poetry lesson, students discover the multiple types of poetry while reading in the library. Ultimately, the students create their own poetry and share...
Mary Pope Osborne, Classroom Adventures Program
The Backpack Travel Journals
Strap on those backpacks, it's time to travel through history with this literature unit based on the first four books of The Magic Tree House series. While reading through these fun stories, children create story maps, record interesting...
Reed Novel Studies
Beezus and Ramona Novel Study
What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of having siblings? Pupils explore this topic with the Beezus and Ramona novel study. Additionally, scholars answer questions about chapter one of the time-honored book by Beverly Cleary...
Curated OER
Diamonte Writing
Students discover poetry while practicing their storytelling skills. In this language arts lesson, students read diamonte and acrostic poems written by other students on the Internet. Students create their own narrative stories about a...
Curated OER
Baseball
In this poetry worksheet, students write a creative poem utilizing each of the first letters in the word baseball on each line and then come up with words that describe baseball using only those letters on each line.