10 Minute Poetry for Primary Grades

Teach Primary Poetry Like a Pro!

There was such a HUGE response to my 10 Minute Poetry for Upper Elementary Grades that I created a resource for Primary Teachers! 10 Minute Poetry Mini Lessons for Primary Grades.  And, to make things even better, you can choose between a printable and digital version!

 

Enjoy fun, simple poems, student response pages, and easy to follow Teacher Direction Cards. There are 24 poems included, perfect for a full month poetry unit, or a once a week poetry focus (minus your short weeks of the year). Click the images above to link to each product.

Each student page includes the poem, a space to draw an illustration or show what the student can visualize from the poem, and then a written response. Also included are EASY TO FOLLOW teacher direction cards. This takes the guess work out of how to teach poetry for you, and makes poetry and fluency practice fun for your students!

For more great products for primary, check out these links:

 

DIGITAL ELEMENTARY POETRY!!!

If you're like me, then teaching last quarter made your head swim a little! It took some time to figure out what works and what doesn't work digitally, and I've spent some time this summer reworking lessons so they will work in our new digital world. The first thing I did was revise my 10 Minute Poetry Comprehension Lessons. (Click the image to go directly to my store!)

Now, students can respond and reflect to all of the poems in Google Classroom. Teachers can upload a poem and students submit their work back - all online. This is PERFECT for remote learning, hybrid settings, or even in a physical classroom.

Suggestions for use:
1. Teach your 10 minute mini lesson. This can easily be done via Zoom, Google Meets, or another live video platform. Teacher direction cards are included.

2. Upload student assignment. Students can either complete on their own or during your mini lesson. If you want to guide students through the assignment, just pull up the poem page on your computer and share your screen.

3. Have each student keep a simple poetry journal/notebook so they can keep their brainstorming notes, visualization pictures, and anything else that you want them to do with these poems.

Definitely what I'm going to be using this year!

Here's some other links to a few other digital products I've been working on. Just click the image and it'll take you right to my store page.

        

Can't wait to share more digital learning tips with you soon! 

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Martha from The Owl Spot

Easy Classroom Hacks: Timelines

I love reading about classroom hacks! I'm always looking for an easier way of doing something, either to save time, money, or both. I thought you might enjoy discovering some of the hacks I use in my classroom.

Today's hack involves sentence strips and colored pencils. That's it! Things that you normally have in your classroom. Have you ever thought of using these to create time lines?  By folding a long sentence strip 3 times, you get 8 squares. I have my students use the first one as a title page, then the other 7 to sequence historical events (or events in a novel that we're reading). 

Students write a title for each event (including the date), draw a picture to show what happened, and then either write a summary on the back or use pre-made text boxes that I give them to match the event with the details. This is perfect for an end of unit review or assessment!

Check out our American Revolution time lines!

Try using sentence strips to sequence events in a mentor text, show the order of events in a historical time period, steps in a science experiment and/or life cycle, or how to solve a multi-stepped math problem. The options are endless! 

I'd love to hear back from you - how did you use this hack in your class?

Happy Teaching - Martha from "The Owl Spot"

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