How to Elevate Your Poetry Unit

This tool helps you energize your poetry units when using Chromebooks or iPads in the classroom.

In this 3-Minute Classroom Problem Solver video, SimpleK12 edtech trainer Monica Burns explains how to use the Adobe Spark to take your poetry instruction to the next level.

Watch as Monica turns a poem into a piece of visual art. This simple tool allows you and your students to create professional quality graphics in a matter of minutes. When your students finish their creations, they can save and share with others easily.

Can you see yourself using Adobe Spark in the classroom? Let me know if you found this article helpful; please leave a comment below.

Interested in more resources for your students? Check out some of our reading and writing articles, and take a look at this on-demand online training session:

Inspired by Media: Creative Writing in the Digital Age. Would you like to spice up writing assignments for your students and get them energized about writing? In this lesson, learn how to embed media — photography, artwork, and videos — into creative writing tasks using an online learning platform to inspire short stories, poetry, articles, historical fiction, and other written work.

About Our “Poetry Unit” Presenter

Monica Burns is an Education Consultant, EdTech Blogger, and Apple Distinguished Educator. Monica works with teachers to make technology integration exciting and accessible at all grade levels. She has conducted well over 40 unique training sessions for SimpleK12; click here to take a look at more videos from Monica.

About the Author

Kimber Thompson is a Lead Moderator for SimpleK12 webinars and a Contributing Editor for SimpleK12.com. She writes frequently about education topics, and is passionate about tools and techniques that inspire young learners. You may reach her with ideas and comments at editor@simplek12.com.