Poetry
is THE most welcomed form of literature in my classroom! I love to use it to
challenge top readers and writers and to also support struggling readers and writers.
It is a great form of writing to use across the content areas, too. Don’t wait
until National Poetry Month to incorporate poetry into your upper elementary
classroom.
Try these tried and true tips and tricks to bring poetry into your classroom every day to support your students.
Try these tried and true tips and tricks to bring poetry into your classroom every day to support your students.



Poetry is a great way to challenge students across the content areas and to use as a summative assessment to wrap up different reading units, too! I love using a simple acrostic poem in unique and challenging ways to increase student discourse and critical thinking, too! Click HERE to read 8 different ways you can bring acrostic poetry into your classroom to engage and challenge students of all levels.
Whether you are teaching remotely or in the classroom, this list of activities will surely engage your students AND help you save a lot of time planning! Click HERE to read how you can engage your young poets remotely or in person!
Looking for quick poetry tips that are easy to implement in your classroom? this quick read is just what you need, and bonus there is a FREE poetry guide to help you teach a variety of poetry! Click HERE to read more!
You
can also effortlessly bring poetry reading and writing into the content areas,
too! Students love to write Bio Poems about famous people in history. It makes
the perfect activity for President’s Day or during any history unit you teach. During
science, students can write a diamante or haiku poem about a broad topic or even simply a content-specific vocabulary word! It is a great way to get reluctant students writing across the
content areas.
Don’t
let poetry go untaught until National Poetry Month! Teach poetry all year long.
Your students will reap its many benefits in reading, writing, and the content
areas too!
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