Poems Winter Spring Fall Poetry Activities: Emergent Reader Songs Music Videos 2

Description

Introducing Poems Winter Spring Fall Poetry Activities: Emergent Reader Songs & Music Videos Set 2 Engage your kindergarten and first-grade students with this year-round Poetry Unit! Packed with thematic poems, emergent reader copies, and interactive poetry activities, this resource transforms shared reading into an exciting, fluency-building experience. Each poem of the week is set to a familiar tune, combining music, rhyming, and rhythm for a joyful learning experience.

What’s Inside?

This comprehensive resource includes everything you need to teach poetry to kids while supporting literacy skills:

• Seasonal Poems: Perfect for winter poems, fall poems, and more!
• Songs and Music Videos: MP3 and MP4 files make singing and learning effortless.
• Emergent Reader Versions: Build confidence with easy-to-read, student-friendly poems.
• 5-Day Fluency Plans: Pre-made lesson plans save you time and make learning structured and fun.
• Interactive Activities: Use printable resources, pocket charts, or digital tools like Seesaw and Google Classroom.
• Phonics and Word Work: Reinforce skills like rhyming, syllables, blends, digraphs, and sentence building.

Poetry Themes for Every Season:

August & September: Back to School & Apples

• “Back to School”
• “Johnny Appleseed”
• “Goodbye Summer”
  Activities: Initial sounds, short vowels, syllables, and word families like ap, at, and ad.

October: Fall Poems & Halloween Fun

• “School Carnival”
• “Arachnids”
• “Pumpkin Patch”
  Activities: Rhyming, word families, digraphs, and syllable counting.

November: Thanksgiving & Autumn Fun

• “Family Feast”
• “Leaf Jumping”
• “Scarecrow”
  Activities: Blends, digraphs, word families, and sorting nouns/verbs.

December: Winter Poems & Christmas Joy

• “Gingerbread Boy”
• “Hibernate”
• “Reindeer Games”
  Activities: Digraphs, rhyming words, syllable counting, and sentence correction.

January: Snow & Winter Adventures

• “Polar Bear”
• “Hot Cocoa”
• “Sledding”
  Activities: Winter vs. summer sorting, short/long vowel sorts, and word families like old or ole.

February: Valentine’s Day & Groundhog Day

• “Groundhog Day”
• “100 Days”
• “Symbols”
  Activities: Contractions, rhyming, short vowels, and sentence writing.

March: Weather, Reading, & St. Patrick’s Day

• “Leprechaun Trap”
• “Rain Clouds”
• “Dino Stomp”
  Activities: Blends, long vowels, digraphs, and parts of speech.

Spring & April: Insects, Easter, & Nature

• “Five Flying Bugs”
• “Bunny Business”
• “Metamorphosis”
  Activities: Long/short vowels, sentence corrections, and compound words.

May: Ocean Animals & End-of-Year Celebrations

• “Sea Mammals”
• “School’s Out!”
• “Camping Out”
  Activities: Contractions, blends, syllables, and sorting activities.

Phonics and Word Work

Each poem comes with additional activities designed to enhance literacy:

• Rhyming practice
• Word families like ap, at, am, and ug.
• Syllable counting
• Blends and digraphs
• Sentence correction and building

Why Teachers Love It

1. Fun and Engaging: Students love the songs and music videos, which make learning enjoyable.
2. Easy to Use: The 5-day fluency plans and ready-made resources save valuable prep time.
3. Versatile Formats: Perfect for interactive notebooks, pocket charts, or digital platforms like Seesaw and Google Classroom.
4. Year-Round Learning: The seasonal themes keep lessons fresh and exciting all year long.

Why Poetry with Music Works

Research shows that combining music, movement, and print activates multiple areas of the brain, making learning more engaging and effective. These poetry activities will build fluency, phonics skills, and a lifelong love of reading!

What Teachers Are Saying

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “My students absolutely love these poetry activities! Each poem of the week fits perfectly with our seasonal themes, and the accompanying music videos are a game-changer. My kindergarteners enjoy the emergent reader versions for their notebooks, and the 5-day fluency plan has saved me so much prep time. I especially love the mix of phonics activities, from rhyming to blends and digraphs. Highly recommend this resource for any poetry unit!”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “These kid-friendly poems have made our shared reading time so much more engaging! The seasonal focus—like spring poems, fall poems, and festive Christmas poems—keeps the content fresh throughout the year. My students especially love the activities for rhyming and word families, and the emergent reader copies make it easy for them to practice fluency. This is the best resource for poetry activities in kindergarten and first grade!”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “My students are so engaged during our poetry lessons thanks to this resource! The kindergarten poems are catchy, and the emergent reader versions help my struggling readers build confidence. I love the seasonal themes, especially the winter poems and Valentine’s Day poems. The included phonics activities, like rhyming and sentence building, align perfectly with my literacy goals. This is a must-have for teaching poetry to kids!”

Get Your Copy Today!

Enhance your literacy lessons with Poems Winter Spring Fall Poetry Activities: Emergent Reader Songs & Music Videos. Perfect for shared reading, poetry units, and building fluency in kindergarten and first grade!