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Getting the Most out of Poetry

Come on over to see what I have my kids do with poetry throughout the week!

This can EASILY be adapted to be a center during the week.

Poetry Puzzle Cut and Paste!

Friends~We are having so much fun in class with Poetry!  We have spend the last few days talking about the music in poetry and how the authors achieve it.  We experimented with line breaks today and it was so much fun! 

We started by choosing an object in class to write about.  The students used many of our Mentor Poems to create theirs.  After lunch we went back to our poems and read them to partners.  We then headed back to our seats to copy our poems over onto construction paper.  The students then cut their poems apart and practiced moving their line breaks.  It was like watching them put puzzles together.

It was so fun to see them read their poem and then make changes to perfect just the right music for their poem. 

 They glued them right into their poetry books.  I then had them meet up with their partner and read both versions of their poem.  Their partner had to choose the best one.  It was fun to see how many of them made their music better. 

One of my favorites was written by this little sweetie above.  She took our tie died bean bag and created a super fun poem.  Give it a listen and leave a comment so that I can share it with her:)

If you are teaching poetry with your class be sure to check out my Shooting Off with Poetry Booklet!

It is filled with the templates that I use to teach poetry in class.  

Building Fluency With Poetry

Hey gang! I wanted to share a wonderful resource that I found that has several free poetry lessons to teach fluency with, as well as a book you can order that has a poem for each week and activities to go along with them. If you are interested in learning more head on over to my blog and see how I used this resource in my guided reading groups.