Poetry kindergarten

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.

I have been celebrating National Poetry Month for several years with our students with most grade levels writing different types of poems. I wanted to do something with the kindergarten students t…

This rain poem is the perfect way to incorporate poetry activities into your daily lessons this spring! By using a poem of the week, you help build reading fluency, phonics and phonemic awareness skills, comprehension, concepts of print and more! Don’t forget to check out the great poetry writing prompt perfect for creating a copycat poem!

Discover the benefits of teaching POETRY to young children! Learn how to incorporate simple & appealing poems throughout your day! These low-prep, easy to use activities will help students achieve your literacy goals!

This week I will be beginning a poetry notebook in my kindergarten classroom. We will use each of our poems as a shared reading a...

I found the best way for my children to understand poetry was to explore poetry with art. Read and see if you can find something in the poem to illustrate.

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...

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! We read, discuss, analyze, and even memorize poetry every week...poems that help to bring our curriculum to life. Kids love poetry. The tongue twisting words, the alliteration, the onomatopoeia, the fun language, the rhyme, the rhythm, and so much more. Teaching a social studies or science concept using fun poetry is the best! The kids keep all their…

Happy Saturday! It has a busy one in the Pauley household. I wanted to share our poem this week with all of you. I have always used poetry in my classroom, but this year I am going to try to have one focus poem a week. This was our first big "theme" for the year....NAMES! We had a special poem for our first poem of the year. (It is to the tune of "Are you Sleeping?") We introduced our first "popcorn" words this week...I and a. We read our poem/song a few times and then together found our…

Poems for Kids: Below we have gathered a great selection of short and funny poems in English for kids to get them laughing and learning.