Kids' Poems by R. Routman
Kids’ Poems: Teaching Second Graders to Love Writing Poetry
Kids’ Poems is also available for other grade levels.
Regie Routman is a teacher who writes professional development books for other teachers, presents inservices, leads school-wide literacy professional development residency projects, and also offers professional development training CD’s. Her books are very helpful to teachers. This book is especially for teachers of second graders. She discusses how to teach poetry and the best part is that whole pages of this book are devoted to samples of student work. These samples could be used in classrooms to show children what is possible for students to write in the area of poetry. Being able to show student work samples is sometimes more helpful than anything. The poems she is talking about are all free verse, non-rhyming poems.
Below are free PDFs for student poetry and story writing, with a summer theme. This way, students may choose to write free verse, rhymes, or even stories. These are generic writing frames that really do not require the book, above. Most have a nature theme. (see below, click on picture for full PDF of all pages)
FREE PDF poetry writing paper frames for poems about hummingbirds, summertime, butterflies, bees, rivers, trees, monsters, storms, and writing frames. The different kinds of writing pages in the PDF are to help provide differentiation. Student directions are included.
Happy poetry writing, Carolyn
Carolyn, Do you know Reggie Routman too?? I will be super impressed if you do! I love her work. I was stopping by to find some good poetry books for my boys. Any ideas?
Dear Jackie: I do not know Reggie Routman, only her work. Georgia Heard has some nature poetry books with short poems for kids, but they are a little deep actually. Do you know a Child’s Garden of Verses? Children will listen to those and I have a copy here I could send to you! Carolyn
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