Poetry Forms Lesson, Grades 3-5: Acrostic Poems

Is one word per line really an acrostic poem? In about 40 minutes, students learn that an acrostic is a poem whose first letters, read from top to bottom, spell a word or name, and that every line has to be a real line that says something, not a one-word label.

What's inside

• 15 slides, with speaker notes on all 15
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student Notes, 1 page
• Poem Page, 1 page
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Teacher answer key, 1 page
• Print-all PDF, 7 pages: lesson plan, Notes, Poem Page, worksheet and answer key together

Answer key included

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