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'It is the joyous power of poetry that turns listeners into readers and readers into writers.' Charles Ghigna
Bring your listeners, readers and writers to life by sharing poems. We've sourced public domain poems to help create readers and writers who explore rhyme, rhythm, spelling patterns, letter knowledge, word meanings, punctuation; enable practice in fluency, expression, phrasing, visualising, predicting, connecting; and provide inspiration, motivate poetic innovations, explore literary devices and create writers.
All poems @ Teachific come ready to photocopy for shared reading (A4, enlarge to A3) as a class and personal readers (A5, A4) for independent reading.
Five Fat Sausages: A fun counting poem. Count from five down to one as each sizzling sausage pops in the pan. A great poem to act out. Try writing a class version; change the food, change the sounds, change the numbers, change the action.
For more ways to use poems during Shared Reading explore our mini lessons.
Australian curriculum alignment
Year K
ACELT1606: Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns.
Year 1
ACELT1585: Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme.
Year 2
ACELT1592: Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs.
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