Spring Acrostic Poem:

Writing a S.P.R.I.N.G. Acrostic Poem
Inside Fun Rainbow Shaped Templates

Spring Acrostic Poem Classroom Door Display

First, this is a S.P.R.I.N.G. acrostic poem. I have added a challenge to the concept of a typical acrostic poem though, because the key letters appear in the middle of the poem, instead of at the beginning of the poem.

Second, this a rainbow shape poem and students complete their final drafts by writing in an arch shape of a rainbow.

Students cut out their rainbow templates along the thick lines and then they have unique rainbow shaped poetry writing templates.

The finished drafts of these S.P.R.I.N.G. acrostic rainbow poems will make a very colorful poetry bulletin board display in your classroom.

This S.P.R.I.N.G. acrostic poem
set of teaching resources includes:

• first draft writing worksheet
• black and white rainbow template
• color rainbow template
• matching 5 page bulletin board display banner
• 6 rainbow bulletin board accent pieces

Everything that you need to complete these spring acrostic poems is included in this set of poetry lesson plans. All that you will need is scissors and coloring pencils.

For creative writing assignments, I believe that it is important for students to go through the steps of the writing process.

For this reason, my students never begin writing their poems on their final draft rainbow poetry templates, instead they write on first draft worksheets. Then, they edit and revise their poems on their own, with a partner, or in individual writing conferences with me.

After students have edited and revised the first drafts of their S.P.R.I.N.G. poems, you should give them their final draft rainbow templates.

The rainbow templates measure 6 inches in height and 10 inches in width. These templates have thick lines, so it is easy for students to cut out their spring acrostic poem templates themselves.

Students write their acrostic poems on the 6 arched lines on the rainbow templates, and each line of the poem gets shorter in length.

For final draft poetry assignments, when I give my students fun templates to write on, I have found that they tend to use their best effort, and they are more careful to not make careless spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.

S.P.R.I.N.G. Acrostic Poem Example

This set of poetry lesson plans includes 6 color rainbows to use as bulletin board accent pieces to help you create your eye-catching spring bulletin board display.

The following sayings are written on
the 6 rainbow accent pieces:

• Spring Into Writing Poems!
• Our S.P.R.I.N.G. Poetry!
• Rainbow Shaped Poetry
• S.P.R.I.N.G. Acrostic Poems
• Spring Into Poetry!
• We are Colorful Poets! / We are Colourful Poets!

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