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- Title
Extending Acrostic Poetry Into Content Learning: A Scaffolding Framework.
- Authors
Frye, Elizabeth M.; Trathen, Woodrow; Schlagal, Bob
- Abstract
The article provides an instructional framework that elementary grade teachers can use to extend acrostic poetry into content areas. Formula poems such as acrostics are compared with rhyming, nonsensical poems. It is suggested that teachers offer books and web sites to have students listen to, read, and investigate the acrostic form of poetry. The teacher should ask students what they noticed about the poems. These processes of immersion and inquiry can benefit students to participate in a shared writing of acrostic poetry. Acrostic composition development in a second grade science curriculum and in a fourth grade social studies curriculum are discussed.
- Subjects
POETRY studies; ACROSTICS (Literary form); ELEMENTARY school teachers; SCAFFOLDED instruction; CONTENT area writing; ACTIVITY programs in elementary education
- Publication
Reading Teacher, 2010, Vol 63, Issue 7, p591
- ISSN
0034-0561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/RT.63.7.6