Hi, I'm new at this but I wanted to reply to your question.
There is a great book by Regie Routman called Kid's Poems. He has a book for K, 1st, and 2nd that I know of. I'm sure he has one for higher levels. It really has great ideas. But one that my first grade class has really taken off on is the repetitive poem. Demonstrate first by picking a subj. that they may be interested in. I chose "class" and we created a poem like this.
boys and girls
likes to talk
Now the children chose a topic and write a poem using the repetitive phrase. Even my low children really enjoyed doing this writing activity. When we have free write, I have many children who still write repetitive poems. Good luck and I hope this will help
Originally posted by Unregistered
I am a first grade teacher and it is my first year. As a school all first graders are writing poetry. Any ideas on some simple poems to help with teaching it?