Budding poets create two acrostic poems, one for their name and another using a word of their choice. Over the course of five days, scholars compose, revise, publish, and share their work with their peers.

Students write free-verse acrostic poems about themselves using the letters of their names to begin each line. They then write an additional poem about something important to them. Then they recopy and illustrate them.

Have hearty humor with a handy, helpful handout! Kids work on their alliteration skills with a figurative language instructional activity that focuses on alliterative adjectives and phrases. After kids add nouns to ten adjectives, they...