Poetry Month

We are now two weeks into national poetry month. In the 2Speak Right speech room we enjoy poetry as it is a skill that encourages vocabulary, writing, analysis, and phonological awareness. Here are some ways that poetry is used at all levels of learning and links to some lesson ideas. Hope you enjoy them.

Preschool
1. Recite nursery rhymes and finger plays.

Click here for 50+ downloable rhymes and finger plays

2. Pair pictures- bear and chair "That Rhymes"

Click here for free rhyming card match up

3. Alliteration- play "I am going on a trip" (I will bring an Aunt Addy, a big brown bear and a calm cat)

Elementary
1. Write an acrostic poem:

Slow
Promise
Rising up
In
Northern Minnesota
Go away Winter

2. Write a concrete poem (poem in the shape of its subject)

3. Write a Haiku (three lines of five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables).

4. Read it and Rate it- Read a poem and have students give a review
 
5. Use a KWL to sort words in the poem: words you know, Words you want to know, and words you learned.

More Lesson Ideas
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/87

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/april-national-poetry-month-20478.html

http://www.poetry4kids.com/blog/lessons/poetry-writing-lessons/

http://www.lauracandler.com/filecabinet/literacy/poetry.php


Check out our TPT store for our "Poetree" graphic organizer.