Poetry Workshop

Kids love reading poetry! I turned my reading workshop into a poetry workshop in April. I found lots and lots of poems online and in books. I copied the poems for the kids, and they had their own binder full of poems. Here are two charts that I made to help teach kids how to read poetry. Before doing any type of assessment in poetry, the kids had to learn how to read a poem. After spending a week on reading poetry, I did fluency assessments for three weeks. Kids shared poems to the class aloud independently and in groups. They had lots of fun. Along with the fluency assessments, we also reviewed comprehension strategies inferring and creating mental images.