Reading Poems

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Reading Poems

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What do poems write about?

• ANYTHING

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It can be some important themes

• Love
• Death
• War
• Peace
• Great people

• Purpose
• Make people think

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It can be personal

• Your breakfast
• Your pet
• Your school
• Your father
• Your toys

• Purpose
• For fun

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It can be stories

• About aliens
• About magic
• About people and animals

• Purpose
• To entertain

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Types
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1. Acrostic Poems

• Style
• The first letter of each line forms a word

• Example
• F aithful
• R esponsible
• I ntelligent
• E nergetic
• N ice
• D evoted
• S ympathstic
• (Wheeler, 1997)

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2. Limericks

• Style
• Usually funny poems with five lines and a rhyming
  scheme of AABBA
• Lines 3 4 are shorter
• Nonsense
• Rhyme rhythm

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Example

• There was a young schoolboy called Scott
• Who knew answers to quite a lot
• But his teacher then said
• He had a big head
• And tied his tongue in a knot

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3. Sausage Poems

• Style
• It is a string of words with matching endings and
  beginnings
• Matching with letters
• Matching with sounds

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Examples

• A. With matching letters
• Good dogs shouldn't tell lies
• B. With matching sounds
• Dad drives Zara and Della around Dallas

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4. Sound Poems

• Style
• The use of words that imitate or describe sounds
• E.g. hiss, bang, splash
• (onomatopeia)

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Example

• Sneeze by Roger Stevens It's c c c c cold out
  hereIt's f f f f freezingand as you knowthe
  cold and snowalways starts yousn sn sn sn
  snATISHOO !

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Features

• Use of imagination
• Use of observation
• Sounds
• Rhythm
• Rhyme
• Message
• Shape

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The Most Important RapBy Roger Stevens

• I am an astronautI circle the starsI walk on
  the moonI travel to MarsI'm brave and
  tallThere is nothing I fearAnd I am the most
  important person here

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• I am a teacherI taught you it allI taught you
  why yourspaceship doesn't fallIf you couldn't
  read or writeWhere would you be?The most
  important person here is meWho are you
  kidding?Are you taking the mick?Who makes you
  betterwhen you're feeling sick?I am a
  doctorand I'm always on calland I am more
  important than you all

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• But I'm your motherDon't forget meIf it wasn't
  for your motherwhere would you be?I washed your
  nappiesand changed your vestI'm the most
  importantand mummy knows best

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• I am a childand the future I seeand there'd be
  no futureif it wasn't for meI hold the
  safetyof the planet in my handI'm the most
  importantand you'd better understand

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• Now just hold onI've a message for you
  allTogether we standand divided we fallSo
  let's make a circleand all remember thisWho's
  the most important?EVERYBODY IS

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Questions

• 1. The poem mentioned 4 important people. Who
  are they?
• 2. Why are astronaut so important?
• 3. Why are teachers so important?
• 4. Why are doctors so important?
• 5. Why are mothers so important?
• 6. Why are children so important?
• 7. Who is the most important of all?

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Writing your own poems

• 1. A Poem for My Friend
• For Robert
• Respectable
• Outstanding
• Brainy
• Efficient
• Resourceful
• Tender
• By Helen Choy

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2. Me

• My name is ________________
• I always ____________________
• My friends says I am very ________
• I also find that I am quite _________
• My favourite hobby is ___________
• Because it is so __________
• I like to play with _________
• _____ is very ________
• So we _____________________

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• Me By Lam Yang Yan (F1)
• My name is Sandy
• I always do something naughty
• My mother says that I am very crazy
• I also find that I am quite silly
• My favourite hobby is skating
• Because it is so exciting
• I like to play with Winnie
• She is very funny
• So we can always together happily

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Reference

• http//www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/index2.htm
• Task-based Learning, Language Arts and the Media
  A Resource Book for Secondary English Teachers by
  Angela Mok

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You can create your own book for poetry!

• Today, Kitty says If you want to improve, work
  harder!