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- Read the poem aloud to your students the first time through. Demonstrate fluency (poetry is perfect for teaching about expression!) as they read. After reading, model “thinking aloud.” Ask questions about the poem, and have your students help you come up with the answers.
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As teachers, we should teach our kids how to comprehend poetry as a process. Step One: Read for comprehension. Read the poem aloud to your students the first time through. Demonstrate fluency (poetry is perfect for teaching about expression!) as they read. After reading, model “thinking aloud.”.
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Aug 11, 2019 · Reading poetry can help develop pre-reading and reading skills in young children. Poetry is vocabulary enriched. It teaches grammar and other linguistic skills. It can also improve student’s fluency in reading. Many poems contain rhyme. Knowing how to rhyme will help a child to read.
- Activate prior knowledge. Students are most receptive to new learning when they can connect it to what they already know. Poetry provides a quick and fun way to do this.
- Establish theme. Teaching with a theme and its accompanying guiding questions isn’t new to most of us, and the majority of teachers maintain a ready repertoire of methods to establish themes for classroom novels or other literature units (see some ideas and a huge list of Universal Themes in my How to Teach a Novel Handout (opens in a new window)).
- Explore language. If you’re anything like me, you struggle to teach students grammar in way that is motivational or memorable. How many of us can recall learning our parts of speech and verb forms in deadly dull exercise books?
- Focus on facts. Creating poetry is a wonderful way for students to share information they learned through class or independent study. What’s fantastic about poetry is that it can bring life to otherwise dry and lifeless facts!
Read the 5 Reasons to Teach Poetry in the Classroom. Below you’ll find creative resources and tools to inspire young poets. These helpful tips and ideas will help you enjoy teaching poetry to children.
Start each day with a read aloud poem. I like to start off each day during the poetry unit with a read aloud. Kids really enjoy hearing poems and the writing voice of different authors. If you aren’t big into reading, you can put a youtube video of someone performing poetry reading as well.
