Shared Reading Poems for April with 5 Day Plan

Description

Do your kiddos enjoy singing and rhythmic poems? Shared reading poems are a great way to integrate literacy and science! You are inviting the students to practice reading with you -shared reading! Your students will enjoy these fun, rhythmic, songs/poems, while reading along with the teacher each day as they focus on a different reading skill or strategy.

This resource includes:

• 4 weeks of poems and songs (2 styles of each poem in print and digital)
• a whole group phonics pocket chart sort
• 2 phonics cut-and-paste practice activities for each week
• a 5 day plan with suggestions for teaching
• DIGITAL Google Slides of each poem and phonics sort

The poem topics and phonics activities included are:

• A Day on the Farm: /ee/ sound
• Caring for Earth: /oa/ sound
• Life Cycles: /ie/ sound
• The Rainforest: /oe/ sound

How else can I use these materials?

• Use the paper copies of the poem in a poetry station
• Use the phonics pocket chart sort in a pocket chart or word work station
• Use the cut-and-paste activities as morning work, homework, or in a word work station after you have completed the pocket chart sort whole group
• Add the poem to a poetry folder and reread to help build fluency
• Assign the poem through your distance learning platform