What's+in+a+Name

Created by: Courtney Forbes * First Grade* Baxter Elementary

Standard Addressed: 1B/ 1A(if tailored)

Goal of Lesson: Students will create an acrostic poem using their names and adjectives/verbs/nouns that describe them.

When to Teach: Later in the year when students have a more concrete grasp on writing skills.

Lesson: Read the standard and discuss it. Display a paper with your name written vertically down the side. Explain what an acrostic is and how one is created. As a whole class brainstorm words that DESCRIBE you as well as start with the corresponding letter in your name. Allow for sentences (such as my S).

Fancy Outgoing Reader Bubbly Enthusiastic Such a dog lover

Have students share their acrostics with the class. Display if there is room.

Assessment: Score students on their choice of attributes that they wrote down. A student who is shy should not have written outgoing for example.