Poetry Centers

Add PIZZAZZ to your poetry unit!

This resource includes 78 printable pages that can be used as poetry centers in your classroom after each skill/strategy is explicitly taught. The centers are designed to reteach and reinforce. ALSO...the resources could also easily be adapted to use with your whole class as a guided activity!

If applicable, most of the direction sheets match up with recording sheets for reflection. Each center was created to address the Common Core Standards in a Readers Workshop friendly way, with special attention paid to the author's craft, fluency, poetic devices, and teaching my students to be reflective, strategic learners! :)

* This does not include a collection of poems due to copyrights!

I have edited the file to include a suggested list of books/poems as a

starting point for 3rd/4th grade kiddos, though this unit can be used

with other texts for different grade levels. They are JUST

suggestions. Other texts can be used to meet your students' needs.

What's Included:

Cover Page

Directions

Treasured Words

Sensory Words

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Visualizing

Idioms

Similes

Metaphors

Alliteration

Literal/Non-literal Language

Collecting Ideas

Word Choice

Feelings

Buddy Reading

Word Textures

Stanzas

The Speaker

Point of View

Theme

Phrasing

Accuracy

Expression

Rate

Line Breaks

Repeated Lines

Importance of Rhyming Words

Rhyme Schemes

Build a Poem

T-T, T-S, T-W Connections

Record a Poem

Listen to Poetry

Acknowledgments

Where Credit Is Due

© One Extra Degree 2012

Materials are intended for personal use in one classroom only. For use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses.