Fun With Poetry

Monica Annable

Falls-Lenox Elementary

Workshop at LEECA

Content Pathfinder: Fun with Poetry

For Fifth Grade (could be used at other grade levels, too)

Curriculum Area: Language Arts

Specific Topic: Poetry

As a way to interest fifth graders in poetry, I, the Library Media Specialist, visited 5^th grade classrooms. I talked about the various types of poetry and shared examples. We read poems from poetry boxes. A poetry box is a small/tiny box with a tiny object in it that matches up with a poem. The poem is also inside. Students get to pick a box and share it with the class. I’ve also been making weekly visits to classrooms for a “poetry break”. This idea is discussed in Caroline Feller Bauer’s book, The Poetry Break.

BOOKS

The Poetry Break by Caroline Feller Bauer

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

A Jar of Tiny Stars compiled by Bernice Cullinam

Pocketful of Nonsense by James Marshall

For Laughing Outloud: Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone selected by Jack Prelutsky

It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles by Jack Prelutsky

The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky

Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky

The 20^th Century Children’s Poetry Treasury selected by Jack Prelutsky

Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

A Giraffe and a Half by Shel Silverstein