Chapter 8
Poetry
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Presented By:
Molly Brady
Lakitia Middlebrook
Michelle Lammers
Elizabeth Gooden
Value of Poetry For Children
Poetry provides children with
knowledge about concepts in the world
around them.
 Poetry encourages children to
appreciate language and expand their
vocabularies.
 Poetry grants insights into themselves
and others.
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What is Poetry?
There is no single definition of poetry.
 Some definitions specify the
characteristics of poetry, including the
poetic elements and the functions of
words.
 Other definitions emphasize the
emotional impact of poetry.
 Importance of original combination
words,distinctive sounds,emotional
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Characteristics of Poems
Children Prefer.
Children enjoy contemporary poems
more than traditional poems.
 Children prefer poems that deal with
familiar and enjoyable experiences and
poems that tell a story.
 The forms of poetry children most
prefer are narrative poems and
limericks which contain humor,are
nonsensical and about familiar
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Forms of poetry children dislike are
haiku and free verse.
Criteria for Selecting Poetry
Lively Poems
 Poems for young children
 Sharply cut visual images and words
 Simple stories
 Selected Poems
 Effective Poems
 Subject Matter
 Good Poems
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Elements of Poetry
Rhythm
 Rhyme and other sound patterns
 Repetition
 Imagery
 Shape
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Forms of Poetry
Lyric Poetry
 Narrative Poetry
 Ballads
 Limericks
 Concrete Poems
 Haikue
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Poems and Poets
Nonsense and Humor
-Edward Lear
-Lewis Carrol
-Laura E. Richards
-Shel Silverstein
-Jack Prelutsky
-William Jay Smith
-John Ciardi
-N.M Bodecker
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Nature Poems
Robert Frost
 Aileen Fisher
 Byrd Baylor
 Paul Fleischman
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Characters,Situations and
Locations
Myra Cohn Livingston
 Valerie Worth
 David McCord
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Moods and Feelings
Langston Hughes
 Cynthia Rylant
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Animals
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T.S Eliot
Witches and Ghosts
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Lee Bennet Hopkins
Involving Children in Poetry
Listening to poetry
 Moving to poetry
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Dramatizing Poetry
Creative dramatizing is one way to
enhance children’s enjoyment of the
situations found in poetry.
 Poems that can be used for
dramatizations
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Developing Choral Speaking
Encouragement Guidelines
*when selecting material for children who
cannot read,choose poems or rhymes that
are simple to memorize.
*choose material or interest to the child
*select poems or nursery rhymes that use
refrains.
*let children help select and interpret poetry
*let children listen to each other as they try
different interpretations within groups.
Arrangements for Choral
Speaking
Refrain Arrangement
 Line Arrangement
 Dialogue Arrangement
 Cumulative Arrangement
 Unison Arrangement
 Tone Arrangement
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Writing Poetry
Motivation
 Oral exchange of ideas
 Transcription
 Sharing
 Post-transcription
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Forms of Poetry
Nonsense limericks
 Cinquains
 Diamente
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The End