Poetry is an important part of literature. Each new month or season or theme may offer the chance for a new poem to be added to our folders. Read and enjoy these poems with your child. We try to add new poems to our folders as we learn them. Below you will find a letter about what to do when your child brings his/her poetry folder home. Please make sure to return on Mondays, so that we can add new poems.
Dear
Parents,
I am very excited about a project that we are working on. We are
illustrating some poems and putting them into a poetry folder. Each
child will receive a purple poetry folder. Throughout the year, your child
will be bringing home the poetry folder with copies of the poems that he/she
has illustrated. Enjoy the poems as your child reads them to you
and your family. (Please return on Mondays!) These poems may
also be used for working on some important skills. Use the poems
to reinforce:
* letter identification (let your child name and/or identify letters in
the poem)
* letter/sound correlation (ex.-find the letter that makes the b
sound)
* letter/sound correlation (ex.-find the word that ends with the t
sound)
* short vowels (ex.-find a word with the short vowel sound for the
letter a)
* long vowels (ex.-find a word with the long vowel sound for the
letter e)
* one-to-one correspondence (ex.-say the poem and point to the
words)
* letter/sound identification (notice the sound that the letter t
makes in its location of the word-beginning, middle & end)
* learn and recite the poem
* word identification (ex.-point to the word little, etc.)
* repetitive words (ex.-how many times you can find the word is)
Work on these skills for only short periods of time and only one skill at a time. You will be amazed at what your kindergartner can do!
Happy Reading,
Kathleen Adair
