Acrostic Poetry for Kids
Teachers are always looking for new, innovative ways to teach their students poetry in the classroom. Acrostic Poetry for Kids is a resource tool developed by My Word Wizard that teachers can incorporate into their lesson plan to teach poetry to kids.
Learning poetry at an early age can be beneficial to a child's development. Try teaching some of the ideas presented below and then have your students submit their own work to be shown on My Word Wizard!
Acrostic Poem
An acrostic poem is a
beginner's level poem great for budding
young poets. In this type of poem the
first letter of each line spells out a word. The poem may be a series
of single words as in the example below, or may be a series of
sentences or phrases.
Example:
JEANNE
Jolly
Energetic
Academic
Nice
Neat
Efficient
TASK:
Have your students write their own Acrostic
Poem using their name and/or surname. Ask them to include visual images
to illustrate each of the words included in the poem!
