Pre+Activities

=Pre-Activities=


 * Poetry Terms**: Review common poetic devices with your students and have them create additional examples for each vocubulary word.

An Introduction to Poetry for 5th graders

To help students improve their oral communication skills and become familiar with poetry, have one student a day read one self-selected poem to the class or over the loud speaker during morning announcements. Students need to prepare for their poetry reading ahead of time. Students can refer to the website Giggle Poetry by author/editor Bruce Lansky.
 * Daily Poetry Read**

Practice oral reading skills by having students record using Audacity software. Teachers with ToolBox Pro accounts can also upload student work to their classroom website.
 * Podcast**

Wordle Have students select a favorite poem and copy and paste it into Wordle. Words students wish to emphasize, type those words multiple times. The more the word is repeated as text, the larger the word will appear in the word cloud. Randomize or rearrange the word cloud until the desired visual is achieved. Print the completed word clouds and display. See example below: //The Road Not Taken// by Robert Frost. media type="custom" key="5718829"