Encourage your students to learn more about their classmates by writing an acrostic poem.

Students will interview a partner with questions of their choice. Using their partner’s responses, they will create an acrostic poem of their partner’s name.

This download includes templates to ask four or six interview questions. It also includes planning templates with four rhyming pattern options, as well as a template with the rhyming pattern left blank. Use this template to choose your own rhyming pattern or allow students to create their own.

Create final copies for display using either the boxed or lined templates, available with images (which students may like to colour in) or blank (which can be decorated however you see fit).

To support students, you might like to enlarge the planning and final draft templates to A3. You could also simplify the task by creating the interview questions for the students. Increase the challenge for extension students by asking them to create their acrostic poem from their partner’s first and last names.

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