Visualizing with Poetry Mini-lesson/ Center Work

Visualizing with Poetry

This file contains 11 poems for students to read, reread and highlight descriptive words, quick draw what they are visualizing, and write what words helped them visualise/about what they pictured.

Poems included:

I'm Glad I'm Me- Phil Bolsta

A Sorcerer Has Cursed Me- Harry Wozniak

My Neighbors Dog is Purple- Jack Prelutsky

Green Giant- Jack Prelutsky

Raining Gumballs- Arden Davidson

Swap Meet- Arden Davidson

The Perfect Snowball

Talented Family- Ken Nesbit

Be Glad Your Nose is On Your Face- Jack Prelutsky

Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens- Jack Prelutsky

I Ate Too Much- Jack Prelutsky

This file also contains a Visualizing Glasses recording sheet for a mini-lesson with a poem or read aloud of choice. Students should write descriptive words in each box around glasses frames, then draw what they are visualizing in the eye lenses spaces.