Poetry: New Vocabulary Words and Acrostic Poems

1. Poetry: New Vocabulary Words 
and Acrostic Poems

2.  Lesson Plan Poetry: New Vocabulary Words and Acrostic Poems To watch a video that walks you through this lesson click on the link: Curriculum Strand: (Grades 2, 3 and 4) Writing: 1. Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to 
write for an intended purpose and audience; 2. Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, 
literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the 
purpose and audience; 3. Use editing, proof reading, and publishing skills and strategies, and 
knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, 
and present their work effectively; 4. Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for 
improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different 
stages in the writing process. Media Literacy: create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques; Minds on Activity for the Students: (Slide 3) Watch 1 or 2 episodes of Lady Vocab by clicking on the link. (Here are a list of words you can find in this video player: Fierce, 
several, absorb, equator, climate, experiment, distance, maintain, 
protest, bashful, delight, clever, convince, determination, dynamic, 
enthusiastic, mischief, humble, nonsense.) Questions: After watching the video do you know what the words 
mean? What are Lady Vocab and Professor P doing to make learning 
new vocabulary fun? Model task: (Slide 4) Randomly select a word from the dictionary or link the words 
to another unit of study. Be sure to read and understand the definition 
so the word can be used in a sentence. (Challenge your higher-level 
students to pick words they do not know already.) Each student creates 
an acrostic poem with his or her word. (Slide 5) Show examples of Acrostic poem. Student Task/Game: (Slide 6) Allow students time to pick a word, write an acrostic poem 
and edit. Students can choose how they wish to present their poem. (Slide 7) This presentation slide gives you a music file for the students who wish to sing their acrostic poem like Lady Vocab. Extensions: Create other forms of poetry by using the same type of interactive 
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3. Learning New Words With Lady Vocab Click a picture or the weblink 
to choose a Lady Vocab video 
from the video player. http://www.tvokids.com/shows/ladyvocabshow

4. Flip-a-Word Step 1: Flip to any page in the dictionary 
and pick a word. Several Slide me Step 2: Read the definition of the word and make 
sure you understand the meaning of the word. sev·er·al Adjective: More than two but not many: 
"the author of several books"; Slide me Step 3: Can you use the word in a sentence. Share this sentence with a friend. "I took out several books from the library." Slide me Slide me

5. Acrostic Poems An Acrostic Poem, also known as a "name poem", tells about the 
word. It uses the letters of the word for the first letter of each line. 
An acrostic poem is very easy to write. It can be about any subject. Sky Tiger Tame Is cute Gold eyes Ears are big Really lazy So nice and blue Keep on looking at it You should look slide slide

6. Task 1. Randomly select a word from the dictionary. 2. Be sure to read and understand the meaning of your new 
word. Can you use the word in a sentence? 3. Draft an acrostic poem. 4. Share your poem with a classmate before you bring it to the 
teacher for final proofing. 5. Print or type your good copy. Be sure to add pictures or 
artwork. 6. Practice reading or singing your poem for the final 
presentation. Set the timer for this 
writing session

7. Acrostic Poetry Jam Have students come up one at a time to present their acrostic poem. If students wish to sing their poem like Lady Vocab 
click the music file