Poetry - Tool Box
Stories that were passed on with oral tradition until they were written. There is no particular author. Some may take the form of myths, short stories, oral stories, parables, fables, tall tales
Nonfiction Elements Related to Literature
Instructional ideas
- Checklist to evaluate good poems
- Composers
- Poem List
- Poets
- Limirick introductory sequence
- Walk Two Moons and activity for Longfellows poem
Poem Samples
- Snowy Evening
- Breakaway
- Samples from my collection
- Valentines day
- The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by William Roscoe (1807)
- Three little pigs read aloud with singing and chanting
Choral reading samples
Dr. Robert Sweetland's Notes ©