Baseball Season and Poetry

Are you ready for some baseball? Baseball is big here in St. Louis, home of the World Champion Cardinals. Since it is still Poetry Month we squeezed in some more poetry writing. Up to the plate came the "Diamante Poem." Poems in the shape of a diamond, just like a baseball field.  With a little prep work of creating word lists, the kids had an easy time writing their own poems. 


I introduced "diamante poems" by using the Read Write Think website.  They have a couple of great examples and an explanation of how to set the poem up.  You can even create your own poems online and print them out.  My class warmed up with a few examples on the SmartBoard and then took the field to practice on their own. 

Here is the link for the Read Write Think Diamante Poems.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/diamante/

 Here is how a "diamante poem" is set up.

First line - one word, the topic, Baseball

Second line - two words, Adjectives describing baseball

Third line - three -ing words

Fourth line - four nouns or a short phrase

Fifth line - three more -ing words

Sixth line - Two adjectives

Seventh line - one word, synonym for baseball, we wrote Cardinals!


Here are some pics of my team's poems!
I forgot my jump drive at school with my files on them, so I will upload the pages at school tomorrow, if you would like a copy. 
 I created a generic baseball writing page to use with any team.