Poetry is a great way to reinforce grammar concepts like parts of speech, figurative language and punctuation. I always have my class make poems for the different seasons or holidays to collect to put in our end of the year scrap book. I had great success with my mini-unit for Fall Poetry, and for Winter. Today I present to you my Valentine’s Day Poetry set.
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This set includes:
-a circle map starter activity to get the students to actively participate by sharing whole group, things that remind them of Valentine’s Day
-5 circle maps for all 5 senses to help generate Valentine’s Day words that go with each of the 5 senses. This can be done in partners or pass one sense out to each person in the group, like jigsaw activity, and have them share out when everyone is done and add more ideas to the tree map below…
-A tree map to help the students categorize their information from the 5 senses circle maps
I also included some parts of speech mini lessons to review adjectives, verbs, nouns and adverbs. These 4 sorting activities will help reinforce these 4 parts of speech by asking the student to sort the examples and non examples of each. These are all new parts of speech sorts, separate from the ones in my Parts of Speech Bundle AND I put a Valentine’s Day twist on it by having the examples be holiday verbs, nouns, adjectives and pronouns.
Lastly, are 2 poetry templates that engage the students in utilizing their senses and connecting with Valentine’s Day. I provided 2 templates to help differentiate. The first one is more simple…. and the second one requires the student to apply more specific skills, but in a guided way.
From these templates the students can go write a rough draft poem on a separate piece of paper and meet with the teacher to make sure that they have used appropriate and correct words and make corrections as needed. I usually have my students type out their final draft and either print it out on Valentine’s Day paper or print out on plain white paper and then decorate it in their own unique way. Their last task is presenting their poems orally. It is a great way to squeeze in public speaking and allow the students to show off.
I hope your students love expressing their love for Valentine’s Day with poetry pack and that you get a good sense of where your student’s are at with knowing their parts of speech. You can find this set here on my Teachers Pay Teachers store now!
The color poetry worksheet is adorable and the robot clipart adds a great look. I cannot wait to see if I can use this with my Kindergarten classes in February.