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Kidz Wordz A Poetry WebQuest A WebQuest for Elementary Students (Language Arts)
Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits | Teacher Page Kidz Words is one of the newest and coolest magazines
written for kids. The people at Kidz
Words work to make the magazine fun and interesting for all kids. It’s important to them that kids learn to
read a lot of different things. They
also encourage kids to write their own stories and poems and have them
published in Kidz Wordz. The Task The Process
First you'll be assigned to a team of 4 students. Everyone on the team will need to complete each of the activities in the activity list. Remember that a magazine has deadlines and you will have one too. You may choose to use poetry resources that can be found in the classroom, the library, or from the internet sites found below. You need to save all of your work in a safe place. This might be in a folder or on a computer disk. When everyone on your team has completed the tasks or when the deadline arrives, you will be assigned a role by your teacher. If someone on your team is not finished with the tasks, your team will not have as many resources to choose from when putting your magazine together. v The
roles are: On the
designated day your team will present their poetry project. Your team may choose have one person in
the group present the section or have all group members participate. It can be a presentation that uses a
slideshow or one that uses pictures to show your work. The Tasks v
Who is your favorite poet? Learn more about your poet and the poems
that he/she writes. Visit Poetry
Pals to learn how to write an Autobiographical poem and then write an autobiographical
poem about the poet. v Nursery rhymes and tongue twisters are very old forms of
poetry. What is your favorite nursery
rhyme? Rewrite your favorite nursery
rhyme so that it would fit in the modern world. Forgotten your nursery rhymes?
Then visit The Realm of
Nursery Rhymes and read a few. v Visit
this site Poetry
Pals and learn more about different kinds of poetry – acrostic,
cinquain, color poems, diamonte.
Choose two of these poetry forms and create an original poem for each. v Ogden Nash and Doctor
Suess wrote much of their poetry in couplet form. Read some of their poems and look for the rhymes. Create an original couplet of your
own. It should be at least eight
lines. If your are stuck for a
rhyming word, check here rhyming
dictionary on the Internet. v
At this site, Gigggle Poetry – Read’em
& Rate’em you will be asked to choose a poem, read it, and then rate
the poem. Follow the directions
carefully. Make sure that you note
the title and author of the poem you rated. v Now visit
the KidLit
Poetry Gallery and read poems that have been written by other kids. Write a short review of one of the poems
that you have read. You may want to
think about the Read’em & Rate’em activity that you completed. Make sure
that you name the title, author, author’s age, the type of poem it was and
why you liked the poem. v
Just for fun, visit Poetry Tiles
and create your own magnetic poem. v
Haiku are a wonderful form of poetry. Visit Children’s Haiku Garden and read
several of the haiku found there.
Then write one original haiku. v Check
out the poetry contest found at Giggle Poetry. Describe a poetry contest that your magazine
might run. What ages would be
involved? How would they submit their
work? Would there be a theme? What would the winners get? v Your
magazine will want a special over designed for this issue. Design a cover that would make others want
to learn about poetry. It can be
drawn or computer generated. Books
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Developing 2 |
Accomplished 3 |
Exemplary 4 |
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Completed the selected number of tasks |
Completes 5 of the tasks |
Completes
6-7 of the tasks |
Completes 8 of
the tasks. |
Completes 9-10
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Tasks completed neatly and
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Worked cooperatively with the
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Completed the assigned job for
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Put a couple of sentences here that
summarize what they will have accomplished or learned by completing this
activity or lesson. You might also include some rhetorical questions or
additional links to encourage them to extend their thinking into other
content beyond this lesson.
Last updated on August 15, 1999. Based
on a template from The WebQuest Page