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Reading Grade 2

Activity

Title

Using Digital Resources

Parent Information

Students learn by creating their own literary publications. Using online digital resources

support students when writing poems. Children may use these resources to obtain

images, and writing ideas. Children can also use online/digital resources to help them

illustrate a story or poem.

Benchmark LA.2.6.4.2- The student will use digital resources to present and publish

thoughts, ideas, poems and stories.

• Brainstorm words to help write a poem

• Edit poems

Objective

• Follow online “digital” directions to complete the creation of an ACROSTIC

poem and a DIAMANTE poem.

Duration

30 minutes

Materials

Students can learn about and write online diamante poems, which are diamond –shaped

Procedures

poems that use nouns, adjectives, to describe either one central topic or two opposing

topics (for example, night/day or winter /spring). Examples of both kinds of diamante

poems can be viewed online or printed out. The online tool provides definitions of the

different parts of speech students use in composing a poem. This helps to reinforce the

connection between word study and writing as well. An acrostic poem uses the letters in

a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main

topic word. As part of the online tool, your child may “brainstorm” words to help write their

poems and can save their work-in progress to revise and edit, reinforcing elements of the

writing process. Your child can also print their finished Diamante poem and their Acrostic

poem as well.

Sample FCAT

Students practice using and identifying words that describe people, places or things.

(Use poems, or favorite stories as a resource)

Activities

Additional Resources

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Reading Grade 2