Poems: A Free Show, K-2 - Leroy F. Jackson

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Standard Resource

Years: K-2

3 Pages

Product Code: TEAC175

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 whole class shared reading (A4, enlarge to A3) and personal readers (A5, A4) for independent reading.

A Free Show: A poem all about the amazing things people can do! It won't take long before your students will be making up their own verses. Add this poem to your class Big Book of Poetry. Add illustrations of each of the characters. Write your own verses as a class, extending those students who are ready to write verses on their own. Create a class Big Book of original poems. Maybe they will be about people you know! There will be plenty to act out with this poem. You'll be able to put on your own Free Show.

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.