CRYSTAL ALCALAQIANA KINGSTEPHANIE THOMAS

POETRY

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Do you like Poetry?

•“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that it is poetry.”

~Emily Dickinson

So, why do we need poetry?

•To help children celebrate what is clear, precise, beautiful,

artful, and true in our language

Evolution of Poetry •Morality and Sin

•Celebration of Childhood

and the imagination

•Less structure, more

diversity

•Direct voice, realistic

•Banner for social justice

Early Poetry

Sympathetic Voices

Contemporary Voices

Many Voices In With The New…but We Are Keeping The Old

Categories

of Poetry

• Mother Goose/Nursery Rhymes

• Jump Rope & Counting Rhymes

• Folk songs for children

• Lyric/expressive poems

• Narrative Poems

• Nonsense verse

• Form Poems: Limericks & Haiku

• Dialogue Poems

• Free Verse

• Novels in verse

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Sound ~ Invoke emotion in children.

Rhythm• the beat of a poem. • Rhythm is set by the “stresses” or

“accents” in the words themselves.

“White founts falling in the Courts of the sun”

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers”

“.. A clickety fence, give it a lick, it’s a lickety fence, give it a lick, give it a lick, with a rickety stick, pickety, pickety, pickety pick.”

Rhyme• pattern of repetition. • Musical quality

“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.”

“Brown and furry, caterpillar in a hurry, take your walk, to the shady leaf, or stalk.

Alliteration

• One of many kinds of special effects of language in poetry to create a mood, add music, color, and texture, emphasize something, evoke an auditory or visual experience.

• Musical quality

not knotty is alliterative, but cigarette chase is not.

“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.”

Onomatopoeia

• when words imitate the actual sounds of things.

• “BING” “MOO” “OINK”

Windy Nights“Rumbling in the chimneys,Rattling at the doors,Round the roofs and round the roadsThe rude wind roars…”

Images•Put us in a picture•Enables us to imagine things according to our senses.

What Christmas Feels LikeThe tree’s aglow with colors of red, green, blue,

and orange, The heat’s toasty arms warmly embrace us. Presents under the Christmas tree Beg to be released from their bright, sparkling coats. Santa Claus cookies washed down with boiling, hot chocolate;Shouts of glee and appreciation; Hearts overflowing with love; This is what Christmas feels like.

Comparisons• Simile – “Belly button, like the balloons

that float at parties. I have a knot on my belly so I won’t go flat”

• Metaphor – Birds are flowers flying and flowers perched birds

• Personification – The wheat danced to the beat of the distant thunder.'

Forms

Insight

“The dog writes on the window with his nose”

“ I want to be famous the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.”

Major Authors inChildren’s Poetry

Nikki Grimes

Janet Wong

Jack Prelutsky

• Her poems are often about an individual’s personal life.

• She has written many poems on family, relationships, love, hope, and confidence.

• Some of her works have been granted the ALA notable books award as well as the Coretta Scott King Award.

• She is a poet of children and adult works.

• Some of her works include: It’s Raining Laughter, A Dime a Dozen, and Sister Love.

NIKKI GRIMES

Janet Wong

•She is a Californian with Chinese and Korean ancestry•Most of her writing focuses on the point of views from children of minorities•She won the International Reading Association’s “celebrate literacy” Award•Some of her works include: The Dumpster Diver, The Rainbow Hand, A Suitcase of Seaweed, and Good Luck Gold.

• His poems are known for being very funny, lively, and ironic.

• His works tend to focus on the joyous moments, the challenges, and the hardships of childhood.

• Some of his works include: The New Kid on the Block, No Girls Allowed, A Pizza the Size of the Sun, My Dog May Be a Genius, and many more.

JACK PRELUTSKY

Children’s Preferences in Poetry

•Children enjoy poetry that consists of animals, relatable experiences, and lots of humor. Preferred poems also must contain rhythm, rhyme, and sound. Poems that are in narrative form seem to be liked by various age groups.

•The two types of poetry that are most disliked by students are free verse and haiku. (Do you believe this to be true and why?)

•Sadly, poetry becomes less interesting to many children as they reach middle school and high school. (Any ideas why this may happen?)

What are some ways we can teach our children to appreciate poetry?

•Share poetry informally whenever you have the opportunity

•Have children act out or create a musical of various poems

•Regularly encourage children to write their own poetry

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