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Poetry Unit
Posted by: Yanique Michaud #95327

I actually did a really good poetry unit this past semester. I used the book "Rose Where did you get that red?" by Robert Koch (I think)

I got so many great reviews. My fifth graders would ask me everyday, "Are we going to do poetry today".

So hear it is, I used the above book fo initial ideas and after you do a couple of his lessons, you will find that you are able to think of your own poems to read. Anyway, what would happen is I read "Love that Dog" as the intro to my poetry unit. It only took one hour to read, but the students need to see that the book is written as a poem. I then would pick works like William Blake's "Tyger", read them the poem and then give them a prompt. For "Tyger" the prompt was that they were talking to an animal and they were asking the animal who crea...
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poetry
Posted by: BookMuncher #118490

I teach poetry similar to MIteach... actually, that's probably because I also use a book by Georgia Heard, but it's called For the Good of the Earth and SUn. I'll have to look into the one MIteach mentioned... the one I use is SO valuable. After reading it, I feel like I am teaching so much more than poetry when we do poetry in our room. In this philosophy you're really not teaching "types" of poems, as much as you are teaching a poem as a vehicle for communicating tiny, powerful, intimate, and important thoughts.

I explained what I do in detail and also posted lots of my lessons and books on this thread:

http://www.proteacher.net/discussions/showthread.php?t=27910

As for a way to teach both reading and writing, I've found great success with having a poetry journal...
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Teaching Poetry
Posted by: MITeach #118370

I also used to teach poetry in the way that you described. However, I found that most students hated reading and writing it and as soon as we were done with the unit, I didn't see them reading or writing any other poetry...except for the dreaded acrostic.

This year I was introduced to the book "Awakening the Heart" by Georgia Heard. I am most of the way done with it and it is fabulous!! It talks about incorporating poetry throughout the year. Students are introduced to poems by having them explore different poetry books/poems. Then as you read poetry as a class they keep their own Personal Poetry Anthology, collecting and recording poems that they really enjoy in to to keep.

As for the writing of the poetry, students find their "poetry heart", what really matters to...
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poetry
Posted by: Jade #92967

Hi!
We too, have started a unit on poetry. A great book is by Reggie Routman, Teaching First (or any other) Graders To Love Poetry. I have the second grade book because I taught that last year, but I just modify here and there. Free verse writing is so much easier for the kiddos than rhyming, although they all love the rhyming ones. We read sample poems and discuss what the poet was trying to get across, then we might brainstorm a similar topic and come up with a poem as a class, usually not rhyming. Then they go off and work independently on their own for about 15 minutes. Then we try to wrap up with a sharing of a few poems. The kids love poetry! We have also done acrostic poetry. I will also teach them cinquain poetry as well. But to answer your question, the way I started I r...
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TONS OF POETRY
Posted by: HEIDI #81263

Our school improvement plan last year was to include more poetry into daily work for our kids. So here are a couple of my suggestions:
I hids a ladybug piece of notepaper (laminated) in a student's desk each morning. That is known as the poetry bug. If they catch the poetry bug, they get to not do D.E.A.R. time like normal. Instead, they get to go to a wall in the back of the room that has a variety of poems laminated and on velcro stuck helter skelter for them to choose from. They take one or several to their seats and read those for D.E.A.R. times. they love it because they are allowed to get up and down as often as they like to swap poems. I change the wall for each season. It was a lot of work to copy the poems and put nice colour behind them before laminating, but well wort...
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Poetry
Posted by: Sharon #23377

Check out the following book through Scholastic: "Favorite Poetry Lessons" by Paul Janeczko. He has numerous ideas for grades 4-8. If you can't find it, email me and I will send you my favorite lesson.

Do you write poetry yourself? Read some of your own poetry. Many times kids often feel so incompetent when they beautiful poetry because they feel nobody can write like that. they have spent the whole year with you so chances are, they have also grown pretty close. It will make them feel theat much better when hearing something that wasn't written by Robert Frost.

I see so many poetry lessons where the majority of the poetry is about nature. Kids are more in tune to their own personal feelings, their friends, etc. What ever you decide to do, make it from the heart. Please, plea...
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poetry is fun
Posted by: Leisa #32354

Too bad your unit focuses so little on writing. I did a unit for the first time last year with my third graders after spring break. I thought they'd be too tired of school to work very hard, but this unit was the highlight of my year. They wrote THE MOST creative, beautiful things and for the first time all year, I couldn't wait to come to school every day! I'll share what I did even though it's focused on writing. Each child ended up with a poetry booklet - the pages were the size of half an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. The first page told what a haiku was (the "formula" if you will), the second page was their written haiku. Third page was the definition of a cinquain, or diamonte, etc. followed by their work. Before we even started the unit, the children came up with lists of noun...
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Poetry Coffeehouse idea
Posted by: Lizard #22436

Hello.... I am a fifth grade teacher.... I like to teach poetry with a coffeehouse format.... I introduce each different type of poetry to the students with the coffeehouse theme.... I pick poems to share ( that are in that form for the day), darken the room, put on soothing music, throw on a small lamp, serve apple juice and cheap cookies, burn a few candles, and make a sign in the door welcoming the students to the coffeehouse.... I do the reading examples for about fifteen minutes at the start of the lesson, allowing about five to seven minutes for the students to find poems to read as well in the coffeehouse each day, and then the rest of the class period we turn back on the lights and write poetry.... I think this is a more authentic atmosphere to be reading poetry in, then just a bor...
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Poetry
Posted by: nikkii #166718

I teach second grade and we started off the year doing a poem every Friday. We make a copy of the poem for each student...we recite the poem, talk about the form, the rhymes if there are any, and highlight the important parts etc. then we practice it a couple of times. Next they color the poem boarders. illustrations etc., and cut the poem out and glue it on a blank sheet of white paper we put in a 3 prong folder (we started with about 20 sheets of white paper in the folder). Then they are to take the folder home, and read it to at least one person, and that person needs to sign the poem sheet( some go overboard with many signatures). The notebooks are due back on Wednesday. For each student that returns their poetry book on Wednesday we mark one number on the hundred's chart. When the cla...
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Poetry writing/reading unit...hints & tips
Posted by: TeacherCarrie #118356

I am writing up my lesson plans for the weeks after we return from break in early January. I really want to begin our poetry unit for writing and reading. Last year, I started it probably in October with just writing. We studied many different kinds of forms of poetry and wrote our own versions for each form we studied. They also read several different styles of poems here and there throughout the year.

But, this year I want to do more reading and the same amount of writing. I am planning on doing this in addition to our regular writing and reading curriculum. The only thing is, I'm only able to fit it in for half an hour once a week...in order to use it as an additional piece of my lessons...otherwise, goodness knows when I'd be able to fit it in at all.

Since it's...
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