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poetry By 3rd grade teacher
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I like to use poetry for a lot of different things. My students' favorites are for creative drawing. I will read a poem aloud to them several times (ones that have a lot of description). They draw a picture to go along| with the poem. Today I did a creative writing with one. I read a poem aloud. It was about a kitten who was playing with the ornaments on a Christmas tree. They had to write a story telling what happened (good for cause/effect) Also, we have been talking about how a title of a story can help you to figure out the main idea of a story, so they had to come up with their own title that | | would tell someone what their story was going to be about. We had a lot of cute adventures about that kitten and the Christmas tree.I have a lot of neat poetry books and try to incorporate them into my classroom each week as well. I love Jack Prelutsky and Shell Silverstein. I have a book (something like month to month poems), a poem a week, holiday poetry books, etc. My kids really do enjoy poetry! Maybe they could compile their favorites into a booklet. I use poems for read alouds, creative writing/drawing, rhyming words, handwriting, etc. I hope this helps a little.
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