Aptivities for the Classroom: Magnetic Poetry

Poetry Magnets are a great way to help with word choice and to get students in the habit of being descriptive without putting them in a situation where they have to come up with their own words. The problem with traditional poetry magnets are that they easily get lost or randomly manipulated by other students.

What it Does

The Poetry Magnets app lets students manipulate words from categories to create their own poetry.  There are different categories to choose from, including one called endings, which lets them add ed, ing, or s to words.

How I Use it

One of my favorite apptivities for poetry magnets is to have my students create a poem in this app as a reflection piece for drop discussion.  This allows them to be creative and active in their reflection, but gives them a chance to practice description and word choice.  They can share their poems from within the app or they can take a screen capture of their poem and send the photo by email.