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Poetry Notebooks
In our classroom we use poetry notebooks to practice fluency,  visualization, and comprehension! Each week during morning meeting, we read our featured poem and discuss it. We read in many ways! We read chorally or dramatically. I may read a stanza, then the students read the next. We also have student leaders read and point. No matter how we read it, we read it every day! This not only builds fluency, it builds confidence!
On Fridays we glue our poems in our notebooks and illustrate each stanza with our visualizations.
Some of my favorite books are:
Past Poetry Projects with my 4th graders
 Poetry Project
This finished product consists of 8 types of poems that adhere to a strict form. We experiement with more free form poetry in class!
I found a WONDERFUL poetry unit created by Heather Renz. I have used it for years and adapted and changed a little since then. Click above for my requirements.
Arctic I Am poems (2006)
Student Rock Haiku (2007)
Haiku Hike (2008)
VoiceThread Animal Hakiu (2010)
My Bio Poem Glogster Page Glogster (2010)
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