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Poetry Center
By Rebecca

I teach third grade and have a Poetry Center. We have a poem a week and I laminate the poem (they are on sentence strips and used in my pocket chart). I give the students a copy each Monday morning of that week's poem.
They put it into their poetry spiral (notebook). Throughout the week, they do different things with their poem: Color code by patterns, rhyming words, repetitive words, etc. (whatever the poem lends itself to). Illustrate the poem. Partner read the poem. We also choral read the poem, echo read, etc. as a whole group. In the poetry center, all the past poems (sentence strips) are available

with the pocket chart. They put the poems back together and read the poem. Each child in that group gets to choose a poem, put it together, and the group reads it aloud. I also make a poetry spiral (like theirs) for the center. They can go back through the notebook and read poems we have already done. My students really like to revisit the poems we have previously done. Soon, we will move into writing poems of our own.