Action Poem

The newest poems the children have been working on use adverbs that end in "ly" and verbs ending in "ing" to describe an activity. The poems are based on the pattern set by this sample poem, "Rebound",byNancy Mack.
A wide variety of academic levels are represented in these poems, since I had all of my language arts groups work on them. The younger children, as young as 6 years old, dictated their poems to me and I wrote the sentences on the board for them to copy, while the older children (our oldest three are eleven years old), did most of the work without assistance.