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Poetry Introduction

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on February 24, 2009 at 12:39:08 pm
 

This poetry unit is intended as an exploration of creative writing, thinking, and orally and visually presenting for all ages and all abilities. The Tic-Tac-Toe table below is divided into Gardner's intelligences and according to four levels of challenge so learners and teachers can pick and choose from beginner, emergent, capable or advanced activities depending on their skills in each of the areas (K-7).

 

Exploration of Poetry

 

Beginner Emergent Capable Advanced

Interpersonal

- Can we create poetry as a group by brainstorming together and using each others' ideas?

- What messages do poets attempt to get across: social justice, change, compassion?

- Who are your favourite authors? What are they like as people?

Explore: brainstorming, poet-trees

Creating pictures and webs to express feelings and emotional responses.

 

Teacher-directed  collaborative web creation (Inspiration, SmartBoard).

Poetry circles for sharing favourite and personal poems.

 

Collaborative Poetry

 

Poetry Lessons by Teachers

 

Peer assessment and critique (2 stars and a wish).

Intrapersonal

- How can poetry journals and books be used to explore your thoughts and ideas? 

Explore: Free verse, imagery 

Learn Now BC!

Starfall

 

Journal

 

Scrap Book: collecting powerful images to evoke thoughts/feelings

 

Listening to Accessible Books

Learn Now BC!

Starfall

 

 

Self-assessment

 

Creating images with

Powerpoint

 

Creating Poetry Files 

Self-assessment

 

Creating Images with Powerpoint

 

Creating Poetry Files 

Kinesthetic

- Can poetry be expressed through movement? Dance?

Explore action poetry, songs, personnification, use different textures and media to create poems: collage, 3-D poetry

Acting out poetry

 

ABC Raps

 

PBS Kids Activities

 

Poems and Rhymes and Things to Do

Express yourself through movement and mime. 

Tableaux:

  

Poetry in Action:

Dancing Through Poetry

Language (Spoken)

- How does poetry change with tone of voice, cadence?

Explore: onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyme schemes

Poetry Presentation 

Choral Poetry 

Poetry Presentation

Choral Poetry 

 

Coffee House 

 

(under these criteria and set-up)

Coffee House 

Understanding Fluency and Oral Interpretations of Poetry: ideas to assist older students with correct recitation of poetry

Language (Written)

- Which poems do you like to read?

- Which poems do you like to write?

Explore: poetry anthologies, picture books, catalogue poetry, limericks, couplets,  powerful words using a thesaurus

 

Poetry Journal and Samples 

 

30 Days of Poetry

 
 

Logical-Mathematical

- How can we define a poem by the number of syllables, verses, couplets or by its rhyme scheme?

Explore: Cinquain, haiku, diamante, limerick, hexaquad, couplet, sonnet

Rhyming Couplets 

Triplets

Haiku 

Quatrain

Cinquain 

Senryu

Tanka

Diamante

 

Teaching 10 Fabulous Forms of Poetry 

Musical

- Which lyrics do you enjoy most? Why?

- Can you write your own lyrics to music?

- How does the beat of the music affect the words to the lyrics?

Explore: rap, jazz, rock, nursery rhymes,

   

Lessons on Poetic Device

 

 

Naturalistic

- How are poets inspired by nature?

- Can you use poetry to describe the five senses? 

Explore: Haiku (breathe in, hold the thought, and let it go)

       

Visual-Spatial

- How does the layout of the poem affect how we read it?

- Can poetry become even more meaningful with illustrations, graphics, choice of layout, font size and colour, backgrounds?

Explore: cinquain, concrete poem, diamante, 

CBC for Kids

 

Wordle: word posters 

CBC for Kids

 

 

Wordle: word posters

Diamonte prompt

Cinquain Prompt

Scholastic Poetry Ideas

 

Wordle: word posters 

Venn Diagram

 

 

  

I have a wonderful book resource for this:  

 

 

Wordle: word posters

 

 

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