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Back to School Poetry Pack {FREE printable pack}

By thisreadingmama 9 Comments

I don’t know about you, but we’re back to school {well, part time any way}. This year, I have a new project up my sleeve that I’m excited to share with you. This is the first of many FREE Poetry Packs to come. My hope is to create a Poetry Pack a month, based on common themes such as back to school, apples, pumpkins, etc. Geared towards K-2nd grade, these Poetry Packs feature my 3rd grader’s clip art, my original poetry, and activities to go with them.
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FREE Back to School Poetry Pack - This Reading Mama

Our Poetry Packs Include These 8 Activities:

  • a 1-page poem
  • Poetry Notebook copies
  • Pocket Chart Poetry Strips for rebuilding the poem
  • Read and Illustrate the Poem
  • Cut and Glue Poetry Activity
  • Rhyming Words Activity
  • Poetry Books- kids can illustrate and/or trace the words from the poem
  • and Poetry Activity Cards {see below}

 

Poetry Activity Cards - This Reading Mama

 

Back to School Poetry Pack

Today, I’m sharing our FREE Back to School Poetry Pack. We worked on a few activities from it just this past week, but not all of them.

On day 1, I displayed the poem on our easel. I read it out loud a few times to them, then they “read” it with me. I used our finger pointer to help NJoy {Kindergarten} and MBug {4 years old} follow along. The activities in the pack weren’t really created for kids in MBug’s literacy development, but she wanted to do it all with us, so she did. ALuv {3rd grade} also did the activities with us as a fun back to school activity.

 

finding letters rhyming words and punctuation in the poem

Then, I gave each of them an assignment. MBug had to circle all the capital H’s, NJoy underlined the rhyming words {a challenge for him}, and I gave ALuv the assignment of finding all the commas and the only word that was a contraction in the poem. Each had a different color of dry erase marker.

 

 

find and sort the rhyming words from poetry

We then focused on the rhyming words for a minute. They helped me brainstorm other words that rhymed with the featured rhyming words in the poem {glue/you and year/here}. I have included some rhyming word cards in the pack, but you’ll want to print off the blank ones, too. We used quite a few blank ones as my kids all thought of other rhyming words I had not included! We sorted them on our pocket chart under glue or year.

 

 

rebuilding poem in the pocket chart On our second day, we read the poem several times, each child taking a turn to point at the words while everybody read along. Then, I gave each of them a poetry strip and we rebuilt the poem together in our pocket chart. We reviewed the rhyming words again.

 

 

write and illustrate the rhyming words from the poem

I displayed the rhyming word cards. I gave each of the kids a rhyming words page and they were to illustrate and write a few words that rhymed with glue and year on the T chart {I folded NJoy’s paper in half long ways to keep him focused on one side at a time.} The kids shared these with each other.

 

 

creating silly poems with new rhyming words

Then we did something fun. We substituted out some of our rhyming words for the original rhymes in the poem, creating a few giggles. Poetry CAN be fun!

 

FREE Back to School Poetry Pack - This Reading Mama

 

Click HERE to download this FREE 26-page Back to School Poetry Pack!

 

 

~Becky

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Comments

  1. Anna@The Measured Mom says

    August 31, 2014 at 8:34 pm

    This is truly FABULOUS!!! I would love to start doing these with my preschooler if I can just get myself together. Maybe when the garden is done…? I had thought about creating and sharing something like this for morning message… but not until next year at least. Awesome, awesome!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      August 31, 2014 at 10:10 pm

      Thank you, Anna! Your comment means THE WORLD to me!! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Sarah says

    September 13, 2015 at 11:04 am

    Thank you for this! Will be using in my K-3 special ed classroom next week!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      September 13, 2015 at 2:43 pm

      Yay! I’m so glad you can use it!! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Elena says

    September 4, 2017 at 3:38 am

    Thank you very much!!!! Lovely poem!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      September 4, 2017 at 9:30 am

      Thanks!

      Reply
  4. Lisa Russo says

    August 25, 2020 at 10:39 am

    I checked out your poetry packs. Fantastic!

    Reply

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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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