POETRY IN THE CLASSROOM

Making Time for Poetry and Connecting with Common Core Standards
Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong

SHORT AND SWEET POETRY LESSON

• Read the poem
• Student participation
• Discuss
• Skill talk
• Connect to other liturature

Grade 5. Building on our efforts to help students respond to poetry in various forms and articulate themes from key ideas and details, in fifth grade (RL.5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7) we explain how the poem’s speaker reflects on a topic and shapes it with a particular point of view. We can guide students in understanding word meanings and interpreting ways figurative language such as metaphors and similes function in poetry. We can also discuss how structural elements such as stanzas and line breaks help shape a poem and how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a poem.

POETRY IN ROOM 255

• Poetry corner
• Love That Dog
• Spoken Word poetry