How to Use Acrostics for Homeschool Lessons

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Need a quick and easy idea for wrapping up a unit of study or for narrating a lesson? Try an acrostic. This word-rich activity touches on vocabulary, spelling, and grammar and results in an attractive finished product.

Steps for Creating an Acrostic

1. Choose your topic.

It can be a person from history, a time period, a science concept or even a math term. Anything goes.

2. Brainstorm words that you associate with that topic.

To add in some grammar practice, you can divide your brainstorming into nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Use this printable worksheet.

3. Arrange your acrostic.

Write your topic vertically, and find words from your brainstormed list that begin with the letters in your topic.

Options

• Make a crossword style acrostic where the words don’t necessarily begin with a letter in the topic. The letter can come anywhere in the word. That is the style of acrostic pictured above.
• Put your words on strips of paper and glue them to your base for more visual appeal.
• Have your child defend each word selected, explaining exactly how it is important to the topic.

Jimmie is a former public school teacher turned homeschooling stay-at-home-mom. A sense of humor, faith, and creativity keep her “pressing on” in her unique situation — living and traveling abroad with an only child in a bilingual environment. Visit her blog at Jimmie’s Collage.