3. Writing Workshop Poetry Unit Overview A 2-5 week unit of study Publishing, Celebrating 5 Writing, Editing, Revising 3 & 4 Collect and Generate ideas 2 Immersion 1 Phase: Week:
4. Immersion Nurture the love of poetry in your students by reading poems from the very first day of school.
10. Highlight poets as Part of your spotlight on “Author of the Month” “Poetry is really everywhere-especially surprising places-where Most people wouldn’t think of looking.” ~ Georgia Hurd “ I love finding the right word. The stupendous, the magnificent, and the ordinary words. I collect them.” ~ Rebecca Kai Dotlich “… a good poem contains both meaning and music.” ~Eve Merriam
11. Create exciting activities for your poetry unit beyond reading and writing. Make poetry part of your literacy program beyond your poetry unit in Writing Workshop.
12. Talking about poems Your students will naturally begin to notice the elements and structure of poems during the immersion process.
18. Writing “off” another piece of writing Aiden wrote a book about turtles in our Non-fiction unit of study. He then wrote his Turtle poem “off’ the facts he learned about them.
19. Young writers Students in primary grades need to develop their confidence and voice as writers.
