Chapter 9: Poetry

Bringing poetry into the classroom is very important for children because it teaches the student rhythm and improves fluency. Like all things there are strategies. Some strategies for bring poetry into the classroom and having them entertained:

• Teacher must read poetry with passion and energy.
• Encourage children to write in poetic fashion.
• Have a lot of poetry books in the classroom.
• Explore poets.
• Write poems
• Ask students to bring in poems.

Something I would do as a teacher is have a poem of the day board. :)