Rubric for Poetry

The rubric used for student self assessment can be found here. I also used a separate teacher's rubric to grade students final draft. Watch for posts that contain student's self assessments coming soon.

Diamante Poem Support Material

Example of High Quality Brainstorm List

Example of Lower Quality Brainstorm List

Class Created Chart to Shows Examples of Parts of Speech

Tyler's Rough Draft. March 2012.

Diamante Poem Guidelines. March 2012.

Example of Final Diamante Poems

Example of lower quality poem. Logan's Final Project. March 2012.

Example of higher quality poem. Tyler's Final Project. March 2012.

Unit of Instruction

5th Grade Poetry Lesson

Four-Day Lesson Plan

Writing Diamante Poetry

Snow Fun Day With King Elementary 5th Grade

One February 9, 2012 we took our class to Buena Vista Resort for a day of skiing, snowboarding and tubing. The weather was perfect and there was plenty of snow. Plenty of fun was had by all. Check out our slide show here.