Climb Inside a Poem Lessons for Climb Inside a Poem

Lessons for Climb Inside a Poem provides a five-day sequence of lessons for each poem in the Climb Inside a Poem big book anthology. Through repeated readings and by accessing the poems from multiple perspectives, Georgia and Lester model in these lessons how poetry can be used to support basic concepts in print, develop word awareness, expand reading and writing fluency, and help children write with feeling and voice. Also included are age-appropriate poet profiles.

Contents
In this book of lessons, you'll find suggestions for ways to work with every poem in the big book for five to ten minutes per day over the course of one week.

• On Mondays, the activity ideas are meant to help introduce the poem to children;
• On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the activity ideas are meant to support children in exploring the poem in more depth;
• On Thursdays, the activities help children get to know the poet and the poet's body of work; and
• On Fridays, the activities are designed to help children focus on the poet's crafting moves.

Each lesson also provides their respective poem in a reproducible format and includes a "Responding to the Poem" page with space to share thoughts about the poem.

PLUS: At the end of the lesson book, in the "Poet Profiles" section you'll find more about the featured poets, including photographs, biographical information, and some "poet-to-poet" advice they offer us for our young poets.