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Poetry in School There are a variety of poems and poetry collections that tell the story of school. Use the poems below to reinforce school rules and expectations or to just celebrate everyday school life! School Rules and Procedures Share: Read aloud the poem “Recess Rules” from the book Lunch Money and Other Poems about School at the beginning of school. Activity: Have students brainstorm rules for recess in their journal. Share the rules as a class and have students choose ﬁve rules they think are important to follow at recess. Post the rules in the classroom so students can remember throughout the year the rules they developed. Correlates to Common Core Standards: Writing Text Types and Purposes 2.2, 3.2, 4.2, and 5.2. Share: Read the poem “Decisions” from the book Lunch Money and Other Poems about School before teaching students the procedures for making a lunch choice and buying a lunch in the cafeteria. To read the poem, divide the students into three groups. Project the poem using a document camera or write it on chart paper. Each group will choral read one stanza of the poem. Activity: After reading the poem, walk students through the process of making a lunch choice. After lunch, have students write in their journals about whether they enjoyed buying their lunch or whether they would like to bring their lunch like the poem suggests. Correlates to Common Core Standards: Writing Text Types and Purposes K.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, and 5.1. School Fun! Share: Put students with partners. Have them visit gigglepoetry.com and click on “poetry theater.” The students should read the two poems “How to Torture Your Teacher” and “How to Torture Your Students,” alternating parts. Activity: After students have read the poems, they need to decide if their group would like to be a student or a teacher. Then they write an additional scenario for how the teacher could torture the student or the student could torture the teacher. Once they have their scenario written, they will visit Voki.com to create a student or teacher character. They will design their character’s appearance and background, and then they will add text to allow the character to explain the method of torture! (Students could also use xtranormal.com to create multiple characters.) Correlates to Common Core Standards: Reading Standards for Literature 3.10, 4.10, and 5.10. Other school poetry books: For more information about our titles visit PenguinClassroom.com Become a Fan Penguin Classroom Follow us @PenguinClass

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Page 1: Poetry in School - Penguin Books€¦ · Activity: Have students brainstorm rules for recess in their journal. Share the rules as a class and have students choose five rules they

Poetry in School There are a variety of poems and poetry collections that tell the story of school. Use the poems below to reinforce school

rules and expectations or to just celebrate everyday school life!

School Rules and ProceduresShare: Read aloud the poem “Recess Rules” from the book Lunch Money and Other Poems about

School at the beginning of school.

Activity: Have students brainstorm rules for recess in their journal. Share the rules as a class and have

students choose five rules they think are important to follow at recess. Post the rules in the classroom so

students can remember throughout the year the rules they developed.

Correlates to Common Core Standards: Writing Text Types and Purposes 2.2, 3.2, 4.2, and 5.2.

Share: Read the poem “Decisions” from the book Lunch Money and Other Poems about School before teaching students

the procedures for making a lunch choice and buying a lunch in the cafeteria. To read the poem, divide the students into

three groups. Project the poem using a document camera or write it on chart paper. Each group will choral read one stanza

of the poem.

Activity: After reading the poem, walk students through the process of making a lunch choice. After lunch, have students

write in their journals about whether they enjoyed buying their lunch or whether they would like to bring their lunch like

the poem suggests.

Correlates to Common Core Standards: Writing Text Types and Purposes K.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, and 5.1.

School Fun!Share: Put students with partners. Have them visit gigglepoetry.com and click on “poetry theater.” The students should

read the two poems “How to Torture Your Teacher” and “How to Torture Your Students,” alternating parts.

Activity: After students have read the poems, they need to decide if their group would like to be a student or a teacher. Then

they write an additional scenario for how the teacher could torture the student or the student could torture the teacher. Once

they have their scenario written, they will visit Voki.com to create a student or teacher character. They will design their

character’s appearance and background, and then they will add text to allow the character to explain the method of torture!

(Students could also use xtranormal.com to create multiple characters.)

Correlates to Common Core Standards: Reading Standards for Literature 3.10, 4.10, and 5.10.

Other school poetry books:

For more information about our titles visit PenguinClassroom.com

Become a Fan Penguin Classroom

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