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Poem of the Week - 22 Weekly Poems & Poetry Shared Reading & Fluency Activities

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What educators are saying

"Poem of the Week" is a classroom essential! With 22 engaging poems and fluency activities, it enriches shared reading experiences. Fostering fluency, comprehension, and a love for poetry, it's a valuable resource for educators seeking to enhance literacy instruction.
Students love these poems! These are used for Shared Reading, stations, and poetry folders! Great and wonderful resource!
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Description

This poetry resource has 22 original poems and activities for September through January for reading fluency practice, shared reading, or a poem of the week. These poems help build reading skills through repeated reading, and the 6 differentiated activities work well as literacy centers, small group activities, sub-plans, word work, and early finishers. Your students will be reading and writing poetry all week long!

22 Original Poems on the following topics:

September, The School Bus, Back to School, Apples, Pumpkins, 5 Senses, Colors, Counting to 10, Fall, Family, Thanksgiving, Skip Counting, Weather, Snow, Snowman, Winter, Santa, Christmas, New Year's, Healthy Eating.

This poem of the week pack resource includes:

  • 22 original poems
  • Poem of the Week or Month Banner (to hang above your poetry board or pocket chart)
  • Pocket chart sentence strips for each poem

Every poem includes:

6 activities for each poem depending on your grade level and skill level of your kiddies (differentiated activities for Pre-K to grade 2).

  • a printable poem sheet
  • writing paper to copy the poem at a poetry center
  • two sheets with sentences of the poem to cut, reorder, & paste onto a separate sheet
  • poem with fill in the blanks
  • fill in the blanks and extra skill tasks with sight words, rhyming words, etc.
  • lots of places to illustrate the meaning of the poems
  • complete the parts of the poem

Look at the PREVIEW for an up-close look at what is included in a Poem of the Week resource. The video preview shows examples from a selection of poems from the Poem of the Week Bundle in action.

How to Use the DIGITAL Poem of the Week Activities:

  • Teach and practice the class poem, while assigning virtual activities for students to complete throughout the week
  • Students will type onto colored text boxes with pre-formatted font and sizing or move interactive elements to show understanding (circles, highlight boxes)
  • Children can complete activities digitally after a whole class, small group, or one-on-one lesson
  • Beneficial for one-to-one classrooms
  • It can be used to further a child’s independent practice of reading skills: in the classroom or in a homeschool setting.

Comes with READY-FOR-YOU Google Slides, PowerPoint file, & images for Seesaw:

  • Comes with instructions for Google Classroom with Google Slides - You will receive a file with a link to create copies of the Google Slides to use in your Google Classroom.
  • Comes with instructions for using images in Seesaw, where you can edit an activity and add instructions for students to complete. Assign the activities using your Seesaw Classroom account, which is compatible with Chromebooks, computers, iPads, iPhones, Android tablets, Android phones, and Kindle Fire.
  • You will also receive a PowerPoint file that can be used as you see fit.


TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stephanie U. says, "These poems worked great during our poetry unit. I will definitely be using them again. I truly like the fact that they are differentiated and my students can use them for different activities."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Julie T. says, "So easy and quick to use. My weekly poems are prepped in no time. The kids like the activities and they repeat throughout the unit so the students get use to the activities and quickly can do them independently."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lindsey M. says, "This is an excellent collection of poems. We enjoy reading these as a class and will be adding them to a poetry duotang for read to self. The activities that go along with each poem are engaging. I will be purchasing more of these poems."

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**PLEASE NOTE: Many of the poems included in the Poem of the Week resources are the same poems included in the NEW INTERACTIVE Poetry Mats BUNDLE! Use both resources together to provide more options for practice!

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Total Pages
374 + DIGITAL (Google Slides, Images, & PPT)
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Teaching Duration
3 months
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Recognize and produce rhyming words.
Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

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