LANGUAGE ARTS
Acrostic Poems About Special People

Submitted by: Rose Torri
From: Whittier, CA
Date Submitted: September 15, 2001

Students can write an acrostic poem about a special person or themselves. They would write the person's name, or their name, vertically in capital letters. Then they have to think of descriptive words or phrases that describe the person for each capital letter. They can write about a neighbor, sister, brother, Aunt Jean, and so on...