Poetry Notebooks: Small investment, big benefits!
Memorizing short poems provides powerful support for English Language Development, phonemic awareness, reading fluency and high-frequency words – and parents love them!
Personal “I Can Read” Poetry Notebooks are children’s choice for “read to self” time.
Poetry and songs invite the use of imagery, drama, movement, and Sign Language to enhance and extend comprehension and vocabulary.
When poetry notebooks go home for weekly sharing, parents become partners in the literacy process.
Children’s art personalizes the rhyme and creates pride and ownership of the reading selections.
The Poetry Notebook is an ongoing literacy collection; by the end of the year it becomes a treasured book to reread and recite over the summer with fluency and delight. (Some teachers choose to send home several smaller seasonal collections of songs and poems instead of one large notebook.)
“Pretty things, well said, it’s nice to have them in your head.” – Robert Frost
SOURCE: Nellie Edge - Excellence in Kindergarten and Early Literacy December 2009 Newsletter For more information and resources visit www.nellieedge.com .
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