How to Find Warm Up Poems

Poetry
Written By Linda

Here at JOYcabulary we always like to pair a lesson with a warm up poem. You can read our post about it here. A colleague recently asked me, “How do you find the poems to go with your read alouds?” Good question, Jamie! I use a few methods for finding related poems:


Warm Up poems get our students ready to explore the topic of the read aloud selection. They activate schema, expose children to figurative language, provide fluency practice, and are just FUN!



Linda

Linda Szakmary has five decades of experience working as a classroom teacher, a district curriculum writer, a district facilitator of K-5 writing, and as a county K-8 literacy coach. She now works for Sullivan and Orange-Ulster BOCES as a content specialist. A poetry advocate and a lover of words and children’s literature, she has been a presenter at several state-wide conferences on vocabulary and writing. Currently, she is working with the staff developers of Mossflower to study intermediate vocabulary instruction within a reading workshop. Linda lives in Stone Ridge, NY where she enjoys gardening, yoga, reading, and rooting for the Yankees. You can often find her on a beach searching for sea glass.

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