Poetry Prompts Grades 1-3

Ideas for teaching poetry to primary children
Your students will learn to write poetry through 15+ worksheets. A further 30+ worksheets and activities will extend students’ poetry writing skills in the following poetry

Poetry is a literary art form that is often forgotten about in the classroom. Young students sometimes experience great difficulty writing any form of poetry. Hopefully the ideas and activities in this book will provide you with some easy ways to introduce poetry writing to your students. You will find guidance in reading, appreciating and writing a variety of poetry forms. The “What is Poetry” section establishes the base for poetry writing. It stresses the importance of listening to and the reading of poetry in the classroom on a regular basis. Choral reading is promoted and explained how to use with your students. This section also contains twenty nursery rhymes and ten rhyming poems divided into parts for choral reading.
Rhyming skills are reviewed in the “Rhyming Words” section. In this section you will find Word Family Lists, ideas to recall rhyming skills, ear training and listening skills and an assortment of rhyming activities and worksheets.
Poetry writing development ideas are located in the “Traditional Poetry” section. Here you will find ways to teach and practice writing rhyming couplets, two word poetry, acrostic poetry, limericks, haiku and cinquains.
This book has been developed to inspire your students to achieve a greater appreciation for poetry and to supplement your own good ideas for teaching this genre. The activities are designed to make poetry writing a pleasurable and successful experience for you and your students.

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