Poetry

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PoetryPoetry is a type of literature in which words are carefully

chosen and arranged to create certain effects. Poets use sound devices, imagery, and figurative language to express emotions and

ideas. Sound devices help authors create rhythm and

rhyme to add a musical quality to their work.

Why is poetry so unpopular in school?

Memorizing and reciting

Writing poetry

Heavy analyzing of a poems meaning and structure

- “I know the true meaning of the poem; its your job to discover it”

Results of Children’s Thoughts on Poetry

1. The narrative form of poetry and limericks were the most popular while free verse and haiku were the most disliked

2. Preferred poems that contain rhyme, rhythm and sound

3. Enjoyed poems that were contemporary and that had humor, familiar experiences and animals

4. Disliked poems that contained visual imagery or figurative language

How should we approach poetry in the classroom?Bernard Lonsdale and Helen Mackintosh describe how we should approach poetry in the elementary school:

“Experiences with poetry should be pleasurable and should never be associated with work. Teachers defeat their own purpose if they attempt to analyze the structure or form of the poem other than to show whether it rhymes; what the verse pattern is; and whether it is a ballad, a limerick, a lyric poem or perhaps haiku. Children in elementary schools should be asked questions or preference and of feeling rather than of knowing”

How should we approach poetry in the classroom?

Allow the students to make their own decisions about poetry

Allow students to choose their own poems to memorize

Introduce many different types of poetry and then allow the students to pick a type they want to write

Integrate poetry into the classroom everyday

Discuss music as poetry

Types of Poetry

Narrative

- Tells stories

- Children usually enjoy them because they are naturally attracted to stories

Listen, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, “If the British marchBy land or sea from the town to-night,Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-archOf the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,--One if by land, and two if by sea;And I on the opposite shore will be,Ready to ride and spread the alarmThrough every Middlesex village and farm,For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”

Types of PoetryLimerick

- A limerick has five lines

- The last two words of line one, two and five rhyme while the last words of line three and four rhyme

- Poetrees: Monkey Puzzle Tree

Types of Poetry Shape or concrete

-Shape poems are made up of words that have been placed in such a way that they make the shape of an object and also use words to describe the object.

-Meant to be seen more than heard and usually does not have a rhyme scheme or rhythm

-Monumental Verses: Great Pyramid of Cheops, Great Wall, Stonehenge

Types of PoetryHaiku

-Haiku is Japanese poetry that reflects on nature and feelings. You use your observation skills to write what you see in a new or different way.

-There are three lines with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second, and five syllables in the third.

-Dogku-Book of Animal Poetry: Blue Jay

Types of PoetryFree Verse

- Coretta Scott

- I’m In Charge of Celebrations

is poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern, or meter. Free verse seeks to capture the rhythms of speech.

Types of Poetry

Nursery Rhyme Poetry: embodies the rhythm of the actual nursery rhyme but may tell a different story

-Truckery Rhymes- Jon Scieszka

Types of PoetryAcrostic

-In Acrostic poems, the first letters of each line are aligned vertically to form a word.

-The word often is the subject of the poem.

Elegantly and efficiently shaped Good to eat Great fun to find at Easter Smooth shelled

Types of Poetry - Cinquain

A five line, unrhymed poem with specific word rules:Line 1: 1 word title that is a nounLine 2: 2 adjectives that describe the titleLine 3: 3 verbs about the titleLine 4: 4 word phrase that expresses your feelings about the titleLine 5: 1 word synonym for the title

Other types of PoetryAlphabet- each line begins with the letters of the

alphabet in order - Everything to Spend the Night

Monorhyme- every line rhymes - One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Unbeelievable

Couplet- a simple, 2 line poem that rhymes and are often silly. Each line should have the same number of syllables.

I like to play with my catHe likes to get in a hat.

Shel Silverstein

http://www.shelsilverstein.com/

- He was a cartoonist, songwriter, author, playwright, poet and performer

- Didn’t become a children’s author until 1963

- Won a Grammy in 1970 for “A Boy Named Sue” made famous by Johnny Cash

References

Mitchell, Kathi. "Different Types of Poems for Kids." Different Types of Poems for Kids. N.p., 26 Mar. 2014. Web. 30 Apr. 2014.

Sheldon Allan Silverstein. (2014). The Biography.com website. Retrieved 08:59, Apr 29, 2014, from http://www.biography.com/people/shel-silverstein-9483912.

Tunnell, M.O. (2012). Children’s literature, briefly (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Welcome to Shel Silverstein | Shel Silverstein. (n.d.). Welcome to Shel Silverstein | Shel Silverstein. Retrieved April 28, 2014, from http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html