Chapter 8 Poetry

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Chapter 8Poetry

• Presented By
• Molly Brady
• Lakitia Middlebrook
• Michelle Lammers
• Elizabeth Gooden

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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 impact and
  visual elements.

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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
  experiences or animals.

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Continued.

• Forms of poetry children dislike are haiku and
  free verse.

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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

• T.S Eliot

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Witches and Ghosts

• Lee Bennet Hopkins

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Involving Children in Poetry

• Listening to poetry
• Moving to poetry

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Dramatizing Poetry

• Creative dramatizing is one way to enhance
  childrens 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.

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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