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Sam, You might put JAson's FB post here if not enough room on Editors Expressions and label both FB as FB Opinions
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● Birthday Poems: Someone having an April birthday? Read what you have solemnly proclaimed to be the ‘one-and-only-true-all-time-best-birthday-poem-ever.’ Doll it up all you want to. The idea is to associate a poem with a pleasant experience. Collect birthday poems from which the April birthday child can choose, and encourage the other students to bring in favorite poems for sharing during their own birthday months.
● Performance Poems: Having a molasses day? Nothing seems to motivate? You need a performance poem! Rainy day? Kids can’t go out? Gym busy? It’s performance poem time! Choose some poems from your classroom collection that lend themselves to performing. Hint: partner poems are especially fun to act out and get the day to wake up and shape up.
● Partner Poems: Poems written for two or more voices provide opportunities for choral reading, shared reading, and performance reading. An added advantage of partner poems is that students take turns reading aloud and then reading to themselves when their partner is reading aloud. Partner poems also provide opportunities to pair strong readers with weaker ones. Rasinski (2003) writes, ‘Oral reading performance has the potential to transform a self-conscious student into a star performer—especially when he or she is coached and given opportunities to practice.
● Fishbowl Game (provided by Ruth Nathan and others): Students drop their name into a fishbowl along with the title of a poem they are ready to read if their name is drawn on the designated ‘Fishbowl Poetry’ day. This game keeps students practicing their poems—never knowing when they need to be ready. Keep plenty of poetry collections in your classroom from which children can choose poems to learn and practice.
● Reserve the Last Five 5 Minutes of the Day (provided by Joan Arth and others)
● One Minute Vacation: Find yourself with an unexpected spare minute during the day? Surprise your students by reading a poem, a one 1-minute ‘vacation’ from their work. Announce it by ringing a bell or whistling or making an ‘official’ noise. Who doesn’t love a vacation!
● Reading aloud a poem or two during the last few minutes of the school day can be a great way to share a few moments of community and send your kids home with a smile.
● Play with your food: This is a fun, easy project perfect for family gatherings where there will be kids looking for things to do. Glazed cookies with words written on them can be combined to form short lines and even brief poems. You can give each part of speech a different color: nouns pink, verbs yellow, adjectives blue, etc. Dark food coloring, corn starch, and water create an edible paint that can be painted on the cookies with a fine paintbrush. Kids love playing with their food and sharing their creations before eating the results.
● Spine Poetry: A form of ‘found poetry,’ whereby you search through books’ spines to find titles that go together to create a phrase, scene or even a poetic thought. Here are the spines of four books, stacked for a short poem.
There’s a Cow in the Road!
You don’t need a lot of titles to play the game. Sometimes even two will do.
On the Night You Were Born
● Hand out blank, unlined paper and have your kids draw an object without looking at the paper. It’s great practice for budding artists to become familiar with their subjects and develop spatial awareness. Next, have your artists exchange pictures and then ask each child write a poem about one of the pictures drawn by someone else.
● In both exercises, perfection is not the goal. This is all about letting one’s mind open and be free to feel the art and words being created. There’s a time and place for proper sentence structure, grammar, and spelling. This isn’t one of those times.
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