Monday morning read the poem to the class. Usually you will be able to recite it from memory. Many of these words are chosen to highlight spelling patterns and rules, and to build vocabulary. Poem of the Week and pre-test are stapled into homework books. Parents sign poem and pre-test.
Students rewrite misspelled words and the entire poem.
During the week in class, recite the poems whenever you have a chance. All poems are put to music to assist in memorizing. On Tuesday, look at the poem and analyze the parts of speech, identifying nouns, pronouns, articles, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions. Also, highlight compund words, contractions and punctuation. They will get really good at this and it will only take a few minutes.