Teacher Created Resources (TCR) has a great new poetry book called Year Round Poetry for Young Learners, Grades K-2.

There are many ways to share poetry with young children. You may want to write the poems on chart paper or display them on sentence strips in a pocket chart. Read and discuss the poems together as a class. When the children are familiar with a specific poem, place it in a poetry learning center along with a variety of pointers for them to use as they read the poems.

I used the poem "My Lunch Bag" when I created the class book shown in the photograph. Cut along any side of a paper grocery bag and then cut off the bottom of that bag. You should have one long strip of paper. Fold that paper in half to create a book cover. You may want to trim the width of the bag down to about 12". Glue an enlarged copy of the poem to the front cover.

To create pages for the book cut along the side of one lunch bag per student and cut off the bottoms of those bags. Give each child one of those strips of paper and have them illustrate the foods they would like to find in their lunch bag. Staple their papers inside the book cover to create a class book.

You could also use their illustrations to make individual books. Fold the paper in half and glue a photocopied copy of the poem to the front. Have the children take their "book" home to share with their family.

Look for more ideas on the Teachers and Parent Pages of this website.

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