How to Write Poetry & Stories Grades 4-6

Ideas and activities will motivate your students to become poetry masters, when writing limericks, cinquains, haiku, mysteries, tall tales, fairy tales, and many more.

Creative writing actives provide a refreshing approach to teaching the standard forms of story writing.

Includes:

12 poetry activities

24 story writing activities

Poetry

l. Poetic Expression

2. Echoic Words

3. A Treasure of Similes

4. Starring Metaphors

5. Personification

6. Haiku

7. Cinquains

8. Limericks

9. Concrete Poetry

10. Rainbow Poetry

11. Parodies

12. Poems a Poppin'

Creative Writing

l . The Elements of a Good Story

2. Fairy Tales

3. Adventure Stories

4. Fables

5. It's a Mystery To Me

6. Tall Tales

7. A Picture Story

8. Animal Stories

9. A S-M-A-S-H-ing Story

10. A Star is Born

11. The "Tall" and the "Short" of It

12. Sailing, Sailing

13. Somewhere Over the Rainbow

14. Cook Up a Story

15. From Dull to Dazzling Descriptions

16. A "Tree"-mendous Story

17. A Chinese Mystery

18. Tuned - In

19. Creative Sentences

20. Sock it to Me

21. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

22. The Big Scoop

23. Great Beginnings

24. An Inquiring Mind