Poetry first grade

Visualizing is one of my very favorite skills to teach little readers. Why? It's a powerful skill that is used throughout life and really helps with reading and listening comprehension.

Teaching poetry is so much fun and so easy to do when you have the necessary tools! I remember my first year teaching fourth grade, our writing curriculum had nothing for teaching poetry. Luckily, I have always loved to write, especially poems, so I developed my own Poetry Unit. It was incredible to see even […]

Hello Everyone!! Happy April and Happy Poetry Month!! Poetry is one of the parts of our writing curriculum that I look forward to so much!...

Teach addition, subtraction, sight words, phonics, grammar, handwriting and so much more with the May NO PREP Packet for First Grade!

Poetry Month is April! It will be here next week! I love teaching poetry to my first graders. Really, I love teaching Writing Workshop and all aspects of it. I think because I always loved Writing

Do you know what helps students stay engaged with learning? It’s when they can express themselves through art! Here’s a fun bio poem activity that will connect kids to the traits they share with their classmates.

My kids this year absolutely LOVE poetry and I LOVE that they LOVE it!!! :) We do one poem every week. I have the poem written out on ch...

Elements of poetry anchor chart

Unleash creativity in your classroom with these fun and creative activities to teach poetry elements in elementary! From rhyming couplets to sensory poetry, engage your students with interactive and hands-on poetry elements activities. Find fun poetry activities or kindergarten and poetry games, too! Explore the blog post for poetry teaching ideas that make teaching poetry to kids enjoyable for first grade, kindergarten, and second grade.

I like to spend a couple weeks each year teaching my students about poetry. We do a number of fun activities in addition to reading and wr...