I love reading and I love to teach Kindergarten because reading really starts to come alive! While we all come to Kindergarten in different places and learn at different paces, we often start our year learning our ABC’s and end our year reading words! This is such a magical process that takes necessary phonics skills, time, and hard work! I’ve included a Phonics Poems freebie that you and your students will love! It is a fun way to encourage extended practice of important phonics and fluency skills! Scroll to the end of the post to download your FREE Phonics Poems for Early Readers Sampler!
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Phonics Poems for Early Readers (and freebies!)
I have shared before about how Fluency Passages and Emergent Readers have helped to strengthen our phonics skills. Now I want to share a bit about how we have extended our phonics work to incorporate more poetry and rhyme (which we love)!
We sing and rhyme all the time in Kindergarten. We also do short chants and poems to help us grow as readers. While there are many great rhymes and poems that are staples in teaching and passed through generations (we still do those beloved rhymes too), so many times the students can memorize them. This is great and they are still practicing tracking, but they aren’t actually able to read all the words in isolation. I wanted to incorporate all that we were learning about the alphabet and word families into poems that we could actually READ! So, Phonics Poems were born!
Ways to Use the Phonics Poems
I love to print these poems and include them in a poetry notebook format, where students can read and re-read the poems. This also gives them something to take home at the end of the year that they can treasure! I find that putting them in notebook format is fantastic for independent reading time. They LOVE to pull out something familiar that they can really read. These notebooks are great for partner reading too!
I recommend adding the poems to the notebook or binder as they are introduced as each poem focuses on a specific word family. They could be introduced as you are working on each word family for some fun practice!
Have your students circle the chunks or repeating patterns in the words. They could also choose to underline. These poems could be completed at school or sent home for extra practice. Or your students can complete the writing portion at school and take the poems home to read aloud!
Another thing I love to do is laminate the poems or place them in sheet protectors. Instant dry erase! Phonics Poems placed in sheet protectors and in a binder could make a fantastic poetry center. Students can read and highlight the word families over and over again!
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Love these! Does each one of your students have their own folder? I'm trying to think of how to do these with my 2 ELA classes. We are departmentalized and don't have much time for our ELA block.
Hi there! My students do each have their own folder – I have the inexpensive kind with the prongs inside and those work well. We add seasonal poems in there as well (I use the seasonal poems from Jessica Plemons at Mrs. Plemons' Kindergarten in addition to phonics poems) or any poems we are working on!
For the phonics poems I also like to put them in sheet protectors as we work on them and have them out during Daily 5 or literacy choices for extra practice.
However if you don't have a long ELA block it may be beneficial for you to have them each have their own folder so they can quickly access them or even take them home and bring them back. I add the poems as we do them, but to save you more time you could have them added ahead of time (do you have any support or volunteers?) and have the kids mark their place with a sticky note for which one they are reading or practicing.
If you have any more questions or just want to chat some more about it feel free to email me at kdgconnection@gmail.com – I am happy to help!