Reciting Poetry
Click on the picture below to hear us read our poems! The first poem is "Bad Hair Day" followed by us reading our "Water Dance" excerpts with our partners. The words to the poems can be found below :)
Reciting Poetry to Build Fluency in Readers Theatre
We have spent the past few days talking about what it looks like to become a more fluent reader. Paying attention to ending marks, reading with expression, and reading without bumps are components that create fluent readers. Reading sounds more natural, as if the reader is talking like they speak. Reading familiar texts helps us develop fluency because we do not have to work on decoding strategies such as sounding out or words. Poetry is a great way to develop reading fluency. We have new poetry folders that have poems to help us develop fluency and are working as a class and with our reading partners to memorize our poems. I will post the poems we are working on below so you can read them along with your child. We will be recording us reading our poems on this site soon!
Poems taken from Water Dance, by Thomas Locker.
We have used this beautiful book for inspiration for many of our picturing writing painitings from our times of day unit, as well as our poetry unit when writing our weather poetry. The poems in this book have been split up one per partner group. Each group is responsible for practicing their poem as a team to become more fluent readers. We will be practicing our poem during reading at school and it would be great practice to work on it at home too! Our goal is to be able to recite our lines by memory without any paper in front of us! I think we can do it!!
Poems taken from Water Dance, by Thomas Locker.
We have used this beautiful book as inspiration for many of our picturing writing paintings. The poems in this book have been split up one per partner group Each group is responsible for practicing their poem as a team to become more fluent readers. We will be practicing our poem during reading at school and it woul dbe great practice to work on it at home too! Our goal is to be able to recite our lines by memory without any paper in front of us! I think we can do it!!
Some people say that I am one thing.
Others say that I am many.
Ever since the world began
I have been moving in an endless circle.
Sometimes I fall from the sky.
I am the rain.
Sometimes I cascade.
I tumble
down,
down,
over the moss-covered rocks,
through the forest shadows.
I am the mountain stream.
At the foot of the mountains,
I leap from a stone cliff.
Spiraling.
Plunging.
I am the waterfall.
I wind through broad, golden valleys
joined by streams,
joined by creeks.
I grow even wider,
broader and deeper.
I am the river.
Drawn upward
by warm sunlight,
in white-silver veils
I rise into the air.
I disappear.
I am the mist.
In thousands of shapes I reappear high above the earth in the blue sky.
I float.
I drift.
I am the clouds.
Carried by winds
from distant seas
I move,
growing heavier
growing darker,
returning.
I am the storm front.
At the wall of the mountains,
I rise up
as gleaming power-filled towers
in the darkened sky.
I am the thunderhead.
I blind the sky with lightning.
The earth trembles with my thunder.
I rage.
I drench the mountainside.
I am the storm.
Storms come.Storms pass.
I am countless droplets of rainleft floating in the silent air.
I reflect all the colors of sunlight.
I am the rainbow.
Bad-Hair Day ** Began Week of 3/24
Student:
I looked in the mirror
with shock and with dread
to discover two antlers
had sprung from my head.
The kids in my class
were complaining all day,
Classmates:
“We can’t see the board
with your horns in the way!”
Student:
The teacher was cross.
He asked,
Teacher:
“What’s your excuse?”
Student:
I said, “Well, I think have
used too much mousse.”
-Linda Knaus