Instructional+Contexts+for+Poetry

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=Shared Reading (sample lesson above)= This is the time to teach specific phonics lessons such as: phonological awareness, letter knowledge, letter/sound knowledge, spelling patterns, high frequency words, word meanings, word structure, and word solving actions.

=Interactive Read-Aloud= Children enjoy hearing poetry read aloud to them. Reading aloud provides a model of fluent, phrased reading.

=Choral Reading and Performance= Participants may read from an enlarged text but often they have their own individual copies.

=Recitation= This activity should not cause anxiety. It can be useful for children to select favourite passages or entire short poems to remember which in turn canhelp sustain attention and internalize rich langauge.

=Independent Reading= Poetry books can be shared with children after shared readings to go into thier independent book boxes. Young students can have shared reading poems cut and glued into a notebook for reading.

=Writing Poetry= Children can begin to get a feel for writing verse through interactive writing. Poetry writing is a wonderful springboard to other writing.