Back to School Poetry Pack {FREE printable pack}

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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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}

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

 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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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!

 

 

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

 

 

~Becky