"Poetry helps struggling students learn
to read."
Dr. Nile Stanley
Creating Readers with Poetry
Do you want your students to be better
readers?
Do you want your students to be better
writers?
Do you want your students to be
interested and enthusiastic in your content area lessons?
Poetry may be your answer!
There is a great deal of research
available supporting the notion of using poetry as a teaching tool. The intent
of this website is to encourage you and your students to pick up your pencils
and write original poetry! Poetry is an
easy tool to use in traditional and standards based classrooms. Using
either teaching model, you
can infuse poetry into your existing reading, writing and content area lessons.
Reading - Shared Reading, Poetry
Centers, Poetry Journals and Partner Reading
Writing - Writer's Craft - similie,
transition words, alliteration, internal dialogue, alternatives for said, humor,
word choice – to name a few
Skills Block - phonemic awareness,
sight words, compound words, contractions, spelling – to name a few
Content Areas – search for poems on
any science, social studies or math concept.
You will find original poems under the Poems button and
also within the strategies buttons. If you and your students are
using poetry in the classroom, please let me know! I would love to learn new
ways to incorporate poetry into the classroom settings. Contact me anytime at
steffani@thepoetryteacher.com!
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