IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

 

April is National Poetry Month. Naturally, you need resources. As a poetry lover and poet, I've taken the time to make resources that will save your time! Check these out:

These POETRY POSTERS provide a quick reference for teachers & students about 20 types of poetry.  Each bright and attractive anchor chart describes a poetry type, as well as providing an example poem. Displayed in your classroom, they provide educational decor and student writing guides.

POETRY TASK CARDS provide a variety of ways for students to interact with virtually any poem you may be studying. Skills range from simple identification of high frequency words to homophones; punctuation to personification; and suffixes to cinquains. Interactions range from highlighting items on the pupils' personal copies of poems to creating poetry of their own.

Take your class on a POETRY SAFARI. This unit provides writing prompts, anchor charts, recording sheets, and craftivities. Your primary learners will love this journey!

Because I want to share my love of poetry, I have created numerous poetry units. These products offer original poetry, print ready for anthologies. Also included are scores of POETRY POSSIBILITIES: teaching points, skill lessons, and activities custom designed for each poem.

Some units focus on seasonal topics. 

Others focus on specific curricula and interests. Fill your academic year with poetry resources!

 

IT'S ABOUT TIME for BTS POETRY!

 

As you plan for the new school year, consider incorporating poetry into your daily lessons.  The potential for skills learned through poetry is nearly limitless.

Capitalize on the excitement of new school supplies to introduce this poem.  Then select from the Poetry Possibilities (lesson suggestions) the activities to employ.  This poem, for example, could be used to introduce/review adjectives and adverbs.  Challenge your learners to write an acrostic poem about their new pencils.  This poem is also great for studying punctuation.  Lots of possibilities here!

One of my favorite BTS activities is creating concrete poems about our new supplies.  These poems can quickly fill a blank bulletin board while celebrating your poets' efforts.

Use this poem to introduce similies.  Students can then write an acrostic poem about themselves that incorporates similies.  You'll learn a lot about your pupils.

Back to School Poetry Possibilities offers a variety of poems and a plethora of lessons.  Each poem has a custom designed teaching point about poetic elements and forms.  The Possibilities are tailor-made skills lessons, activities, and poetry writing prompts.  The range of reading levels makes this unit appropriate to both primary and intermediate level classes.  It also offers differentiated instruction to accommodate students reading above or below grade level.  AND, this week this poetry unit is discounted 20%.

IT'S ABOUT TIME for POETRY MONTH

 April is National Poetry Month.  Prepare your classroom for it with these resources:

These 20 posters each describe a type of poetry.  A sample of that poetry form is also included.  Display the posters as anchor charts or compile them in a notebook as a reference for your poets.

All of the poems and the teaching possibilities in this unit pertain to spring weather, holidays, and activities.

This unit provides teaching points, skill lessons, and activities custom designed for each.  Animal Poems masterfully combines language arts with science.

This unit also combines poetry and science as your students learn about states of water, clouds, precipitation, and content vocabulary.

This poetry unit combines poetry and the history of westward expansion.

Take your primary students on an African Safari through poetry.

These poems and their teaching possibilities are all related to feet and footwear.

These task cards are applicable to virtually any poem you may be studying. Skills range from simple identification of high frequency words to homophones; punctuation to personification; and suffixes to cinquains.