teaching poetry

I found this on the internet somewhere I don't know who to give credit to. I retyped the version and put up to date pictures on it. This is really great for writing different types of poetry.

April is National Poetry Month, why not have your students take "selfie" shots and write "Selfie Poems!"

Free poetry book and posters to help you students learn important terms. Great for learning centers.

Five for Friday- Poetry, planning time, math centers, Valentine's freebie and the fam.

This is a free poem of the week activity. Poetry and shared reading are a great match to help build reading fluency, word work skills and more! This is a freebie that is part of a larger product of 40 Poems. You can check out my Poem of the Week Mega Bundle By Clicking the link below: Poem of the W...

Hello Everyone!! This is my favorite time of the school year. We are finishing up our testing, the kids have become quite independent with everything, they have become readers and writers, they have become problem solvers, I could go on and on! I want to share some of their darling work and a couple of free units. First off, after the big chick hatching extravaganza, I decided to have the kids write about what they would do if they had a baby chick. From what they wrote, they would make…

Shape poems for kids

Hello friends! April is National Poetry Month! I have a few tips for you that have worked so wonderfully over the years when introducing poetry to my classes. Some students are natural writers and can jump write in when asked to write poetry. Other students will stare at you like a lost puppy, suddenly develop...

Anybody who has taught for any length of time knows that anchor charts can be on unbelievable resource for the classroom teacher and for the students. Anybody who has been on Pinterest knows that you can find an anchor chart for just about anything! Many of them are adorably decorated and make us all wish […]

National poetry month is in April, but we are starting early this year! Last week we worked on the Common Core Standard: RL.1.4: students will identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. Each morning we would read aloud some poems, practice visualizing the poem in our […]

Spring Poetry Unit - 12 different types of poems, with posters, definitions, how-to directions, examples, and templates #poetry

So we were starting Poetry about a month ago. I wanted a tool to use while we went through this unit, as we were going to be covering a lot of different types of poetry. I decided to make a book for them to use as a reference. Each time we would learn a new concept to poetry or a new structure, we would go over the definition and then add an example for them to use while writing their own. I used my knowledge of Reading AZ books and decided to make them work that same way. I created a book…

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Poetry for children Help your child enjoy the beauty of words and poetry with these free recitation cards, featuring poems by the most famous poets.

Your students will love responding to poems using our poetry response pages made for interactive journals! There are two different templates included: 1. focuses on imagery and meaning 2. focuses on feelings and the sensesThese templates go perfect with our Interactive Reading Response Notebook!All ...