Updated: 12 Apr 2019
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
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Grades: K - 3
Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
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.
Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes;
Discuss with adult assistance the author's purpose for writing text;
Discuss with adult assistance how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Discuss with adult assistance the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
Discuss with adult assistance how the author uses words that help the reader visualize; and
Discuss the author's purpose for writing text;
Discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Discuss with adult assistance the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
Discuss how the author uses words that help the reader visualize; and
Dictate or compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry;
Discuss the author's purpose for writing text;
Discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Discuss the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
Discuss the use of descriptive, literal, and figurative language;
Use this weekly poetry guide to celebrate National Poetry Month in your primary classroom.
Want to celebrate National Poetry Month but don’t know how? Use this weekly poetry guide to lead your primary students through short mini-lessons; each day focusing on a different literary device or poetic form.
Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
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.
Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes;
Discuss with adult assistance the author's purpose for writing text;
Discuss with adult assistance how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Discuss with adult assistance the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
Discuss with adult assistance how the author uses words that help the reader visualize; and
Discuss the author's purpose for writing text;
Discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Discuss with adult assistance the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
Discuss how the author uses words that help the reader visualize; and
Dictate or compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry;
Discuss the author's purpose for writing text;
Discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Discuss the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
Discuss the use of descriptive, literal, and figurative language;
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