All About Me from ReadWriteThink
RSSDodie Ownes -- School Library Journal, 09/02/2009
The first-day-of-school
“All About Me” assignment which asks kids to introduce themselves to their new teacher seems to be ingrained in elementary and middle school lesson plans. Help your classroom teachers switch it up this year by pointing them to Acrostic Poems: All about Me and My Favorite Things from ReadWriteThink, an online resource sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. The latest All About Me activity asks students to write two free-verse acrostic poems about themselves. The first poem uses the letters of their names to begin each line, and the other uses a word from their first poem to designate the letters that will begin each line in the second poem. The lesson encourages the optional use of an online writing tool which includes an acrostic poem template that makes it easy to create and print out the poem.
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