Especially helpful to teachers setting up Literacy Centers and designing an integrated curriculum, balanced literacy classroom. Ready Made Pocket Chart Sets Scholastic, Creative Teaching Press, and McCracken all sell ready-made pocket chart sets. I especially like the ones from CTP and Scholastic, because they have beautiful color photography illustrations. These are my favorite poetry resource books for pocket chart poetry. For shorter poems, I write the poems on 1 inch sentence strips and display them in two-sided table top charts that we use during Guided Reading and Literacy Centers.
Longer poems go in large pocket charts, with an extra set of text for matching.
A Poem a Day 180 Thematic Poems and Activities That Teach and Delight All Year Long Poetry for each and every day of the school year, with corresponding activities. Animal Poems from A to Z An excellent resource for letter of the week, animal units, or everyday poetry. My bookstore pages have lots of information on how I use various materials in my classroom, and on activities you can do with your students. The thematic pages are complete unit resources, with lots of poems, songs, and links on each page. Choose from the categories below.