Power Toolbox of Poetry
Learning Rituals - Teachers' Edition
Designing a Daily Poetry Ritual
To initiate a poetry ritual, build time into your daily schedule. I know, it's packed. Did you know, poetry can be used in guided reading? Poetry could be used as a Shared Reading and an Interactive Writing lesson?
Your library can house its own poetry books that are taken out more than just poetry month.
Design a wall display for the weekly poem and create personal poetry journals to house poetry introduced during the year.
Introduce a new poem every Monday with a supportive introduction. Read and discuss the poem and explore words, concepts, and ideas to build deeper meaning. Monday sets the stage for the week, so you will generally need about fifteen minutes. Read, reread, underline, highlight and discuss to build a foundation for understanding as you work out any tricky parts and establish your goals for that week.
Use the rest of the week to investigate words and concepts using peer collaboration. Create activity options designed to promote word meaning, concepts and oral reading fluency. Students may initiate word references, investigate class-generated questions, respond tin writing for practice oral reading fluency. these daily activities should build deeper understanding as students work with words and concepts.
Preschool & Kindergarten Poetry
Freebie Sight Word Poem
A Few Poetry Resources to Get Started
http://www.readwritethink.org/search/?resource_type=16&type=28
Interactive Websites for Writing Poetry
http://interactivesites.weebly.com/poetry.html
TONS of poems that can be read to kids broken down by topic
National Poetry Month Information and Videos
Jessica Warner
Email: jwarner@somervilleschools.org
Location: 51 Union Avenue, Somerville, NJ, USA
Phone: 9082184105
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