Finding the Characteristics of Poetry

 

In writing students are learning about poetry. To start, we read and talked about poetry. Our focus was on the characteristics of poetry. We know that poetry often times rhymes, has repeating lines, discusses a single topic, sometimes looks like a list, sometimes looks like a shape, has imagery (the five senses), and has a certain feeling or emotion. We looked through a variety of our new library books to find these characteristics and when we did find something we added it to an anchor chart of that characteristic trait. At the end of our search, we went over our lists and reviewed our findings.