Poems -- School-Age
Poems
Poetry notebooks serve many purposes in the curriculum. They help develop pre-reading skills such as phonemic awareness, sight word recognition, and comprehension.
Have children add a new poem once or twice a week to their poetry folders. Begin by putting a poem on a pocket chart for a week or so. Read the poem everyday. After a couple of days, give the children individual word cards to match with words in the poem.
Poetry notebook cover sheet to print and color.
Poems With Partial Illustrations
After reading the poem have the children draw an illustration for the poem. All the poems in this section contain partial illustrations.
Posted with permission by Kimberly M. Hutmacher, copyright © 2003. May be used with students for educational purposes.
Music CD Review
Back to the Garden
by Ted Jacobs
The beautiful poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson set to acoustic music. The music enhances the poems from "A Child's Garden of Verse" and follows the tone of the poem.
From the waltz-type melody of the poem "The Swing" to the dreamy "Escape at Bedtime." Many of the poems when set to music are very soothing and would be great to listen to when working, napping, or when a quite listen is wanted.
Poems Without Illustrations
All the poems in this section are without illustrations.
A Child's Garden Of Verse
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Worksheets
Ken Nesbitt's poetry worksheets
Book Reviews
16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow"
by Lisa Rogers
A nonfiction picture book explores the inspiration behind Dr. William Carlos Williams most famous poem "The Red Wheelbarrow". Williams observers and notices the small everyday things around him.
The illustrations are calm with muted colors, they are gorgeous and complement the story about William Carlos Williams and his well-known red wheelbarrow poem. A beautiful picture book of the importance of noticing the small everyday things about us, one day looking out of a window on a rainy day inspired one of Williams' greatest poems.
Poetry Speaks to Children(Book & CD)
by Elise Paschen (Editor), Dominique Raccah (Editor)
