Comprehension this week!

This week we spent a few days focusing on characteristics of poetry.  We looked at different forms of poetry, rhyme, and rhythm!  We read a poem titled "The Inchworm"  which was written to look like an inchworm. We read the book IN THE SWIM and looked at poems written about different fish.  Then we chose one of those poems to identify the rhyming words.  We discussed "visualizing" as we read the poems and drew a picture of what we "saw in our minds" when we read the poems.  Here is an example: