A poetry lesson that got everyone writing..

So this worked well in my classroom this week... We were working on poetry, which my 4th grade students aren't always huge fans of.. I introduced a simple structure called “identity poems,” where each line starts with a prompt like “I am,” “I see,” “I feel,” or “I dream,” etc. I then asked the students to write 2 poems, one about an experience that made them super happy this past week, and one about something that they wish they had done differently. The class then went silent for 20 minutes (in the best way possible).

When everyone was done a few students shared what they wrote with the rest of the class... This reminded me why I love teaching writing so much.