Description
2nd Grade and 3rd Grade Poetry Reading Unit
Teaching poetry is hard! This product takes you step by step through the 15 teaching points below with anchor charts, poems, graphic organizers, and more. Buyers have commented that their students now LOVE reading poetry while using this unit.
The elements addressed are:
- Poetry is different than fiction and nonfiction
- Poetry can be about ANYTHING
- Poetry can be serious or funny
- Poetry does NOT have to rhyme
- Poetry does not follow the rules of punctuation and capitalization
- Poetry expresses a person’s feelings
- Poetry uses alliteration
- Poetry uses white space for effect
- Poems use action words
- Poems use repetition
- Poems sometimes have rhythm
- Poems paint a picture
- Poetry uses personification
- Poetry uses similes and metaphors
- Poets don’t just read their poems…they PERFORM them!
Tasks include:
- Visualization
- Peer Reading/Peer Assessment
- Reading with Expression
- Written Response to Reading
- Identifying Author Intent/Message
- Poem Analysis
- Making Connections
AND SO MUCH MORE!!
Included are:
- 17 Posters to introduce elements
- 15 Poems
- 15 Response sheets with RIGOR and depth
Your students will LOVE this unit!!
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