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In this activity, students write poems inspired by wildlife. In the abbreviated version you will create a diamante.
Inspiration
Inspiration
Select an animal, any animal. If you can observe it directly, do so. Otherwise, you can view online videos or photos of the animal.
Create a word bank
Create a word bank
A diamante is a "diamond-shaped" poem created with nouns, adjectives and participles. A word bank is a list of words that you can choose from to create the poem.
List nouns that come to mind when you think about your selected animal. A noun is a person, place or thing.
List adjectives that describe the animal or where it lives. Adjectives describe nouns.
List participles that come to mind. Participles are "ing" words formed from verbs (action words) and used as adjectives.
Write your poem
Write your poem
Using your word bank, select words and put them in the diamante form. Share your diamante on the Animal Poetry jamboard.
Diamante form
Diamante form
noun
adjective adjective
participle participle participle
noun noun noun noun
participle participle participle
adjective adjective
noun
Diamante example
Diamante example
egg
white oval
tapping cracking emerging
beak head wings feet
stretching growing flying
graceful majestic
eagle
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