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Concrete Poetry Sites - This Is So Much Fun!
Poetry Month is Right Around the Corner Are you getting ready for Poetry Month in April? If so, I have some resources to share with you for creating concrete poems. Concrete poems are words written in a shape to convey a poem. They look like this: Recently I went on a mission to search for a site to use with a fellow colleague and her students. They wanted to make concrete poetry on their Chromebooks. There aren't many sites that allow the user to actually write words into any shape. There is the Read, Write, Think interactive for Theme Poetry. Here is what it looks like. The words can be added inside of a shape. The interactive guides students through the writing process There is a site from WildAboutWoods.org where a person can choose a shape or draw one of their own and add words inside of the shape. There are word banks to choose from or a person can type in their own words to add to the shape. I like that adding words is as simple as click and drag f
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I just used this last week in my math class to monitor students' understanding during the lesson. It worked really well! This week I created questions ahead of time for another math lesson. I'll send you the questions incase you wish to use them. I love your idea of monitoring comprehension for a story. If you create questions, perhaps you can share them with me as well. :)