Planting the Seeds of Poetry
by First Grade Diva Creations
Be Ready for National Poetry Month in April!
Encouraging a love of poetry for first through third graders.
I have
just recently fallen in love with teaching poetry!
It is an incredible tool to build fluency
in my primary readers. In the past, I have struggled to get my
students to
read a text with appropriate rate and expression on successive readings.
Poetry
has changed that in my classroom.
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I add a poem a week to my students’
poetry
notebooks. My students keep their poetry
notebooks in their book buckets. They read them all week, and then,
on Friday,
we
have a time where they can perform poems from their poetry notebooks. (Perform
is defined as anything from acting out the poem to simply having the courage to
stand and read a poem in front of the class.) It warms my heart to see them practicing
reading their poems at the appropriate rate and with expression. This has
become one of my favorite times of the week.
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