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another way
By Su

I had a poetry center but it didn't involve making a page for their poetry jounal. My students read the poems in their journals. Another easy activity is to glue a copy of the poem onto a manilla envelope; laminate for
durability. In side the envelope put another copy of the poem that you have cut up by stanza, line, or whatever else your students are ready for. Their job is to put the poem together and read it to a friend. You could also have a write the room type activity where they would look for a specific phonics element, words, parts of speech, etc only instead of using the room they would use

their poetry folders. I taught a poem a week. I either put it up on chart paper or on an overhead and we read it several times each day. On Friday, I gave them their copy of the poem and they were to color the picture if it had one or illustrate the poem if there was no picture. I sent poetry folders home every Tuesday. They were to read poems aloud to their parents for homework. I also put the lyrics of songs in their poetry folders. Many of my struggling readers could "sing" and word match and that's developmentally appropriate reading for a struggling reader.