Poems: A Candle, A Candle, K-2

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Standard Resource

Years: K-2

4 Pages

Product Code: TEAC173

Resource Type: Classroom Resources

About this teaching resource

'It is the joyous power of poetry that turns listeners into readers and readers into writers.' Charles Ghigna

Bring joy to your listeners, readers and writers through poetry. 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.

A Candle, A Candle: A night time poem, with gentle rhythm. Explore spelling patterns in the rhyming words. Act it out. Add it to your Big Book of Poetry and have students illustrate the poem. Glue illustrations into the big book next to the poem. Explore how each student 'visualised' the poem.

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.