Introduction to Poetry

We are beginning our unit on poetry in reading next week.  We are starting with an overview of the four types of poetry they are expected to know. 

I'm starting with this awesome flipchart that my husband made. It describes each type of poetry and gives an example of each.  (You need to have the ActivInspire software to view this.  It is a flipchart made for use with the Promethean board.)

Poetry Introduction Flipchart

 

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As always, I made a small page of notes for the kids to add to their reader's notebooks.  They will refer back to this to quiz a partner and use it to complete a characteristics of poetry sort later.

Types of Poetry Notes Page

 

We are also going to review some of the elements of poetry that I know they learned last year!

I created this notes page that will match our anchor chart.  They will add this to their reader's notebooks to refer back to as we work through questions during the unit.

Elements of Poetry Notes Page

We will complete a sort over the types of poems we discussed.  Here it is...

Poetry Sort

 

 

 

 If you want to see the complete unit I used for my 2nd grade class, click HERE for the lesson ideas.

The pages and poems that go with the unit are below.

Poetry Notes Pages

 

Unit Poems