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📖 2nd Grade · ELAW.2.3Unit 10: Poetry & word choice

Write a poem

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🎯 Objective: Students write their own poem.

Lesson outline

  1. Choose a form: acrostic or list poem.
  2. Draft.
  3. Poetry café.
  4. Exit: read a line.

Lesson 4 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.2.3

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning
  • Read and write poems

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 2nd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Poetry & word choice”

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  3. Shades of meaning
  4. Write a poem

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