Poetry Center

One of our literacy centers is the poetry center.  Each student has their own poetry book. I teach a new poem on a chart once or twice a week.  Over the course of the week each students gets to work more closely with that poem in the poetry center.  I print each poem onto a smaller format so they can be glued into their poetry books.  I also print out a small picture that goes along with the poem.  After they have colored their picture and glued both their poem and picture into their book the kids need to find sight words.  I either write the sight words on a white board or print out a list of words.  The last step is for the kids to find the words from the list and highlight or circle them.