Pocket Chart Poems

Poetry is a wonderful way to incorporate academic language, rhythm, and rhyming skills into your daily routine.

Introducing a new poem each week is an easy way to extend the learning of so many skills. In my classroom the poem of the week goes along with our theme. I use the sentence strips in a pocket chart to introduce the poem. 

The next day I will pull up the FULL size book on the interactive board and track the words with a soft pointer. The students use their own HALF page copy to follow along. The students highlight sight words that they know (or the ones we are working on), partner read and then color in the pictures so that it is ready to take home and read to the parents. 

The pocket chart and pictures can be used as a literacy center. The pocket chart is used to encourage students to use a pointer and track as they recite the poem each day. The printable pictures can be attached to tongue depressors then use in retelling the story.

This simple poem also has an added subtraction element to it.

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Forest/Woodland Animal Mega Research Packet

This Woodland/Forest Animal Mega Research Packet is designed so students can research, learn and write about 35+ different woodland animals. Depending on your grade and student abilities, the research can be done in whole groups, small groups, or individual. Students can record what they learn on class charts, single pages and in their research journals! Use the fact-filled slide show. Vocabulary cards, and anchor chart headings to make learning fun and concrete. You can choose how few or many animals you want to research! 

This packet includes:

•35 colorful fact slides for forest/woodland animals and 7 habitat slides with facts about the woodlands

•Writing pages for 35 forest/woodland animals with fact prompts and pictures

•Writing pages for 35 forest/woodland animals with pictures only

•2 blank writing pages with and without fact prompts

•Seven colorful Landform slides to print and use in a variety of ways: sorting mats, playmats, vocabulary development

•35 label and color pages for the woodland animals

•Anchor chart labels for “Can, Have, and Are” as well as “Schema, Misconceptions, and New Learning”

•“I Have, Who Has” game, Write the Room, and Vocabulary Cards

So much is packed into this 200 page mega research packet! Just look at all you get for $8.00! Click on the link below to go to my TpT store.

Woodland/Forest Animal Mega Research Packet