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E VERYONE’ST TERRIFYINGLY
R ESPONSIVEY AWNS TO POETRY!!
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1. What is the significance of the hand? What does the image suggest to you?
2. Why are the roots surrounded by the color red?
3. Why did the illustrator choose yellow, black and red? What mood is captured by art on the cover?
4. What emotions have you felt when you have surrendered something important?
VALUE OF POETRY FOR CHILDREN
1.Encourages children to play with words2.Serves as a connection to the Arts3.Raises your consciousness of glory and
grief4.Relationship of language and
imagination5.Helps us understand ourselves
What is poetry?
Who knows?
“True poetry, even in its smallest shape, should have form, meter, rhythm, bound into a whole with words that so match and express its subject they seem inevitable.” Rubert Godden 1988
Children and Poetry
1. Children’s enthusiasm for poetry declines as they advance in the elementary grades.
2. Children respond more favorably to contemporary poems than to traditional ones.
3. Children prefer poems dealing with familiar and enjoyable experiences.
4. Children enjoy poems that tell a story or have a strong element of humor.
5. Children prefer poems that feature rhythm and rhyme.6. Among the least popular poems are those that rely on
heavily complex imagery or subtly implied emotions
Elements of Poetry1. Rhythm – Kennedy and Kennedy2. Rhyme – Isabel Wilner3. Repetition – Lewis Carroll4. Imagery – John Ciardi5. Shape – Brad Burg6. Lyric – Woody Guthrie7. Narrative - Rumford8. Limericks – Jane Yolen9. Concrete – Blue Lipstick10.Haiku - Prelutsky
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