Celebrate National Poetry Month in the primary classroom with this planning guide and set of resources.
April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate poets and their craft. Let’s celebrate by bringing poetry into the primary classroom each day of the month!
Use the weekly planning guide to lead your students through short mini-lessons; each day focusing on a different literary device or poetic form. Everything you will need to celebrate weeks 4 and 5 are included in this resource pack!
Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Recognize and produce rhyming words.
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Demonstrate phonological awareness by:
Identifying and producing rhyming words;
Demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes;
Discuss with adult assistance how the author uses words that help the reader visualize; and
Producing a series of rhyming words;
Discuss rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and alliteration in a variety of poems;
Discuss how the author uses words that help the reader visualize; and
Dictate or compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry;
Producing a series of rhyming words;
Explain visual patterns and structures in a variety of poems;
Discuss the use of descriptive, literal, and figurative language;
Compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry;
Explain rhyme scheme, sound devices, and structural elements such as stanzas in a variety of poems;
Describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile, and sound devices such as onomatopoeia achieves specific purposes;
Compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry, using genre characteristics and craft;
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