Poetry notebooks serve many purposes in the curriculum. They
help develop pre-reading skills such as phonemic awareness, sight
word recognition, and comprehension.
Have children add a new poem once or twice a week to their poetry folders.
Begin by putting a poem on a pocket chart for a week or so. Read the
poem everyday. After a couple of days, give the children
individual word cards to match with words in the poem.
*Scholastic-Write a Poem Worksheet to brainstorm possible words for animals, adjectives, and rhymes.
Recommended Books
Imagine This!
By Joanne Froh
Illustrated by
Frances Plagens
Joanne Frances Press
ISBN: 0977764001
Ages: 7+
A collection of rhyming poems for children, illustrated with black-and-white drawings by artist Frances Plagens. The poems will draw children's attention and imaginations with poems of day dreams and make believe.
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