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Not sure if this is something you all have done in the past, but the concept of putting a poem into an actual shape is fun for students. This digital resource allows students to "Paint with their words." This is a blog post about the tool. To get to the actual tool, click through to "visual poetry:

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Earlier this week my friend Andrew Fenstermaker reached out to ask me about a tool for making shaped poetry - a.k.a. concrete poetry. I shared Visual Poetry - an online tool that allows you to paste in lines of text and then, using your mouse or track pad, have that text lay out on the page in any shape you desire. This is an example of Robbert Burns' poem "Red, Red Rose".

How to Use the Tool (from the site)

1. Enter your text in the "Text" field.

2. Optional: Choose minimum size, maximum size, random angle, text color, and/or background color.

3. Click anywhere on the page, hold down the mouse and draw a picture.

4. Click "Clear" to start over or "Save" to save your drawing as an image.

Why I like it

I love the creativity aspects of this tool. Students can make meaning not only with their words but also their art.

1. The obvious - it allows students to create concrete poetry

2. Allow students to write, in any genre and attach images to the words to make more meaning. I can see this working in procedural writing tasks.

This post is part of anual NaBloWriMo exercise wherein I write a blog post every work day in November.

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Earlier this week my friend Andrew Fenstermaker reached out to ask me about a tool for making shaped poetry - a.k.a. concrete poetry. I shared Visual Poetry - an online tool that allows you to paste in lines of text and then, using your mouse or track pad, have that text lay out on the page in any shape you desire.

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MANY poems - and I've got them digitized. Working with ladders helps students get to that deeper meaning/main idea :)

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Book of poetry about racial injustice from Sydney Riffe. ABSOLUTELY amazing. The kids LOVED it last year, could easily relate to it. Using it again to further their understanding and deepen their thoughts would be great!

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Heather has some amazing poems that we've used in the past.

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Meaning and perspective of the poet vs the perspective of the reader.

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Reading, analyzing, thinking, discussing will help with both of these.

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A book written in poetic form - POV is twin brothers who support each other and love basketball
(Am not doing this book justice)

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How might we build greater opportunities for kids to chat?  Talking with my team supported new perspectives about the poems we read!

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How might we build greater opportunities for kids to chat?  Talking with my team supported new perspectives about the poems we read!

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YESS!  Thank you for reminding me of that book!

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YESS!  Thank you for reminding me of that book!

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Having poetry books out for students and having them read through and put a sticky note on the page that interests them. They write a note of what they liked about it.