1. Haley Brazier, Ashley Dukeman, Andrew Redfern Read 366 4/30/14
Poetry
Haley Brazier, Ashley Dukeman, Andrew Redfern
Read 366
4/30/14

2. Poetry
Poetry 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.

3. 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”
Ashley

4. Results of Children’s Thoughts on Poetry
The narrative form of poetry and limericks were the most popular while free verse and haiku were the most disliked
Preferred poems that contain rhyme, rhythm and sound
Enjoyed poems that were contemporary and that had humor, familiar experiences and animals
Disliked poems that contained visual imagery or figurative language

5. 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”

6. 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

7. Types of Poetry Narrative Tells stories
Children usually enjoy them because they are naturally attracted to stories
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of 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 march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch
Of 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 alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”

8. Types of Poetry Limerick 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
Ashley

9. 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

10. Types of Poetry
Haiku
-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
Ashley

11. Types of Poetry
Free 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.

12. Types of Poetry
Nursery Rhyme Poetry: embodies the rhythm of the actual nursery rhyme but may tell a different story
-Truckery Rhymes- Jon Scieszka
Ashley

13. Types of Poetry Acrostic
-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

14. Types of Poetry - Cinquain
A five line, unrhymed poem with specific word rules:
Line 1: 1 word title that is a noun
Line 2: 2 adjectives that describe the title
Line 3: 3 verbs about the title
Line 4: 4 word phrase that expresses your feelings about the title
Line 5: 1 word synonym for the title

15. Other types of Poetry I like to play with my cat
Alphabet- 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 cat
He likes to get in a hat.

16. 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
Ashley

17. References
Mitchell, Kathi. "Different Types of Poems for Kids." Different Types of Poems for Kids. N.p., 26 Mar Web. 30 Apr ​
Sheldon Allan Silverstein. (2014). The Biography.com website. Retrieved 08:59, Apr 29, 2014, from
Tunnell, M.O. (2012). Children’s literature, briefly (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
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