Sing a Song or Poetry: Anchor Charts, Sample Poems, Poetry Templates

April is National Poetry Month! This packet will enable you to teach your students to write the following types of poems: shape poems, tongue twisters, acrostic, cinquain, diamante, free verse, couplets, Haiku, limericks, as well as biographic and autobiographic poems! This product provides you with a great "recipe" to write each poem. Great for use on your Elmo or other overhead device.

Product includes:

- Several samples of each type of poem

- Anchor Charts for posting in your classroom

- How to Charts for teaching each type of poetry

- Templates for composing poems

- Black line templates for final drafts

- Checklist for punctuation and capitalization for each type of poem, as well as

   reminders to check for number of syllables, rhyming words...

- Cover for Poetry Books for students