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Weekly Poetry
By Julie

On Mondays we spend the most time on the poem. Reading through it and decorating our page for our folder. Tues-Friday mornings we read through it once or twice during calendar. I often write them in 2 colors alternating
each line. Then, I will say boys read the green lines and girls read the yellow- or people wearing jeans read the green lines etc. It just makes practicing more fun. Also, Friday afternoons performing them takes about 20 minutes-- we all clap for each group or person. If they had a hard time we recognize that and wish them better luck next week. Also-- you may want to pre number your

poems or have the students number the pages as they go. Later in the year we get out our folders as a "filler" activity, I pick a student and they tell us which poem we should all read. It is easier for everyone to find it if the pages are numbered. We always sit in a circle on the last day of school and do this. They are so proud when they still remember it and don't even look back into their folder! You can make the whole area around your poem a poetry center with magnetic poetry, stamps to write their own poems, frames and highlighters to find specific words or sounds. Sometimes I'll laminate a smaller copy of the poem and cut it in strips or like a puzzle and they have to put it back together, I call this "poetry puzzlers." At calendar in the morning I also read 2 or 3 poems from Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky. They LOVE this because they are such SILLY poems. Hope you have fun with poetry I LOVE IT!!