Acrosstic Poem – vocabulary practice
Advice Metaphor -- metaphors and comparisons
Cause-Effect Contest – critical thinking, complex sentence practice
Cinquain Poetry — parts of speech (noun, verbs, adjectives, synonym)
Comparison Contest – critical thinking, complex sentence practice
Conversation Poems – perspective, comparison, dialogue and rhyming
Family Metaphor – similes and metaphors
Haiku Poems — syllable practice
Mood Writing – voice, personality
Re-Visit -- observation and describing change
Simile description
Sensory Detail -- observation and describing details
Who Am I Puzzles – general and specific characteristics…and a whole lotta fun!