Spanish Poetry Notebooks!

I just love the idea of poetry notebooks. Giving emerging readers the opportunity to successfully read an easy-to-memorize poem and then illustrate it is a win/win in my book! Poems really promote active engagement with the text, which means increased comprehension. And reading without comprehension is, as we all know, boring. Aside from being completely pointless.

Given all of that, I decided to create some poems to be used in a poetry notebook. I used the same poems from my Palabras prodigiosas word work, so that they would coordinate. Now we can read a new poem together several times; put it in our notebooks; illustrate it; do some word work with a high frequency word from the poem; and reread the poem anytime we'd like! It works really well for us. We also can make little notebooks with the full-page versions, like this:

And, since it's Sunday, I've posted a free sample of the poetry notebooks for you! This sample has my detailed teacher notes, a cover for your poetry notebooks, and four simple poems. The poems come in both a full-page format and a 3-to-a-page format. The full page is great for projecting and reading together, and then the smaller version can be glued into the notebook and illustrated. The clip art on the full page version is repeated, much smaller, on the glue-in format, to help jog your students' memory and encourage independent reading.

Just click on this image to head over to TpT and download your free sample!

If you'd like more, I also just bundled both poetry journal sets with their coordinating Palabras prodigiosas word work. You can save 30% on those four resources when you purchase them together in the bundle. Click on this image below to check it out.

Happy Sunday! I hope your Semana Santa is full of special celebrations and meaning for you.