Bite Size Writing Assignment: All About Animals!

This week have your little writers think and write poetically about animals. There are so many amazing creatures, wild and domestic:

• Dogs
• Cats
• Birds
• Cows
• Horses
• Tigers
• Snakes
• Monkeys
• Elephants

Have your student(s) get a pen or pencil and paper and write a poem of 1-3 stanzas (the paragraph of poetry!) containing four lines each. Younger students should do well to get 1 stanza done. A simple trick is to come up with words that rhyme and use them at the end of the 2nd and 4th lines.

Older students should be able to create a poem with 2 or 3 stanzas. Again, the use of rhyme helps if the 1st and 3rd lines rhyme or the 2nd and 4th. An advanced poet will be able to incorporate rhymes in other places within the poem.

Encourage students to have fun and allow them to move outside of reality with the poem. Go wild!

Example stanza:

Cows are very odd at times
I see them chew, chew, chew!
They stand an nosh on grass
As if it's all they have to do!

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PUPPIES! A Fun & Easy Lapbook

KITTENS! A Fun & Easy Lapbook