Making Inferences with Poetry - Free Download

This year on our campus we hosted a Literacy Night  - truly a lot of fun!

Literacy Night for us this year was an entire night (5:30 - 7:00 p.m.) of planned activities for students to do.  The Literacy Committee started off choosing a date and theme.  Then, each grade level selected an activity to prepare for students.

Our theme this year was "Winter Wonderland!"

The activities that each grade level chose didn't have to relate to the theme, but the decorations for the entire event related to that. There was a large mural that had been painted on cloth and displayed outside. Icicle lights hung from the breezeway covers outside. It was such a NEAT theme & I wish I had taken pictures to share!!

The activity I planned for the students was making inferences through poetry. I had already received some poetry from the Literacy Specialist that I worked with at the end of last year during my long term sub position, and then I Googled & found more online.

{Click here to download FREE Inference Poetry.}

AngelFire.com has oodles of making inferences poems! I chose four of them for Literacy Night and "prettied" them up with fancy fonts. Then, I printed them on thick, colored card stock & laminated them. I made a set of 4 for each poem & scattered them across the table so that each was readily accessible by different children throughout the night.

Students read the poem & inferred what it's talking about. There are many different topics - from a tongue to a magic wand. Some of them are pretty funny, too! The kids really enjoyed them!

Hope you're all having a restful, merry Winter Break away from school. I'm so thankful for this time with my family!!