Tired of searching for literacy activities that hold the attention of your busy kinders, are skill-based to address their needs, and easy to prep?
I hear you. I see you. Teaching early readers is incredibly rewarding, but it’s exhausting. You’re juggling the demands to build foundational skills fast, the range of reading levels, students’ readiness for school, and the lack of planning time. Emergent readers need repetition without boredom, and I think my Poem of the Week bundle offers just what you need.
How Poem of the Week Bundle Solves Everyday Challenges
Helps Keep Focus
With the poems projected, you can involve students in pointing, marking, and choral reading.
Provides a routine
With the Poem of the Week routine, students know what to expect and are ready to participate.
Low to No Prep
For the teacher, it's easy to use the poems electronically on the smartboard or the hard copy in small group.
The most important point with teaching K/1 students to read is consistency and repetition.
Whether you’re introducing a new skill or reinforcing a familiar one, these poems are the perfect way to model and practice in a way that sticks. Consistency with a routine that students expect helps build and reinforce what you’ve taught. Plus, your kids can have an awesome keepsake to read all summer long at the end of the year.
Too many levels in one room?
You can use the poems in small groups, whole group, or independently with built-in scaffolds to meet every learner where they are.
No time to prep?
This bundle is a print or project resource. Each set is ready to use with clear, consistent formatting and differentiated options.
Students struggling to blend and decode?
The poems are designed to reinforce CVC words, rhyme, and beginning sounds through repetition and visual supports.
Engagement dipping mid-year?
With seasonal themes, 26 animal themed poems, and classic nursery rhymes, you'll keep kids curious and connected all year long.
What Literacy Skills Will Your K/1 Students Practice?
- Concepts of Print (left to right, return sweep, and tracking)
- Letter Recognition & Beginning Sounds
- Blending & Decoding CVC Words
- Recognizing High-Frequency “Heart Words”
- Identifying Rhyming Patterns & Phonemic Awareness
- Reading comprehension
Here's how this resource works...
Step 01
Teacher Prep
You can project your poem and give students a hard copy. As you model, students can imitate you. I keep hard copies in folders for use in small groups. Just print and go!
Step 02
Lesson Details
All of the poetry set components are included, so writing up your plans should be a breeze. With 78 poetry sets, you can use a poem for the week or use two poems.
Step 03
Activities
As you work with the poem, you can address many skills including concept of print, rhyme, word families, heart words, beginning sounds, decoding, and more.
Step 04
Assessment
As your students work within the Poem of the Week routine, you will see them transition from emergent to beginning readers in no time. Assessment is in observation.
what teachers have to say...
Academic Services
Super wonderful resource! I utilize this with students who are identified as in need of remediation in my AIS (Academic Intervention Service). Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication.
Play Based K-Mrs J
Deborah S.
Here's What You Get...
One line per slide to model
The poem on sentence strips
The poem with touchpoints
The poem in book form
The poem in color/bw
high frequency word cards
Save Time. Build Skills. Engage Students.
