Helping students develop as writers is extremely important in today’s classroom. What is even more important is the developmentof poetry writing. In two to three paragraphs, analyze why a poetry rich classroom is important and evaluate it in terms ofstrategies you would use in the grade level you teach or the grade level you would like to teach. Use references from your readingfor this week to support your ideas.
Children first learn to read and then to write. Following this logic, they should be familiarised with famous works of variousstyles and genres, and study the classics. Poems are the best way to express one's emotions in the shortest, most succinct andmemorable form. At one time I was into reading Osho's books, I was particularly drawn to Everyday Osho: 365 DailyMeditations for the Here and Now (2024). I liked the meditations so much that I wrote my own poem:
My dear boy, open your heart
And you will find deeply inside
It’s raining but without a cloud
And song is played near loud
And quiet …
And there was also a feeling of love that I wanted to express somehow, so I wrote this poem:
I try to explain my feelings
To people who can't understand.
I ask you to be my sweetheart,
But I can't your desires suspend.
I make myself th' way of living
Which everyone to be th' simplest demands
That's why with you I'm not tricking
I know as you're frank and smart
I'm studying to be so nice
To let you get on with me.
Sometimes we all pay our prices
When we want to love and live.
15.02.2007
When we teach children using visual art, dance, song and drama, our children develop fully. However, every song needswords, then it becomes not just an abstract piece of music, but a short story with meaning that can be sung, danced or evenacted out. An example is the children's song ‘Old MacDonald had a farm...’.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O
And on that farm he had a pig, E-I-E-I-O
With a oink-oink here and a oink-oink there
Here a oink, there a oink, everywhere a oink-oink
You can get a new verse just by changing the name of the animal and the sounds it makes.
When studying Page to Stage : Developing Writing, Speaking and Listening Skills in Primary Schools (2004) I liked Four ModelPoems, which follow are in free verse, non-rhyming forms that have repeated lines to give a pattern and structure to thepieces.
1: The Colourful Corridor
Down the poetry corridor
are many coloured doors
Behind the bamboo door:
a small ted panda
clings to the bars of the cage
remembering home
(a haiku poem)
2: The Magical Cat
I am the Magical Cat!
I don't eat chicken or tuna
I chomp and I chew and I munch and I crunch (for my lunch)
minty moons, Magic Stars, Starbursts and a king-size Mars
3: When I Went to the Year 3000
When I went
to the year 3000
I heard
the whoosh and screech
of a low-flying car
I smelt
the pollution
thick in the air
4: A Girl's Head
Katherine Gallagher
These strategies allow students to gain experience composing poems without having to keep track of rhyme or poem size. Asimple and fun way to learn how to write imagery.
But the strategy I want to try with my students is fairly new to me.
List Poems
A list poem starts each line or verse with the same phrase. 'A Girl's Head' (p. 18), 'Hedgehog Hiding' (p. 49), 'Electric Guitars' (p.102) 'At Night' (p. 52) and 'Grandma' (p. 51) are all list poems. Brian Moses: 'Pick one of the phrases below and use it as astarting point for a list poem. Start every line or every stanza with the same word or phrase.'
I wish I was . . .
It's a secret but. . .
I dreamt I . . .
Don't. . .
I'd rather be . . .
I like . . .
If only . . .
As for rhymes, you can use a wonderful site RhymeZone (2018), so that you can not only rhyme lines correctly, but alsoexpand your vocabulary.
In conclusion, we would like to note that working on a poem should be a joy and leave behind a feeling of creativity.
References
Carter, James. Page to Stage : Developing Writing, Speaking and Listening Skills in Primary Schools, David Fulton Publishers,2004. ProQuest Ebook Central,
http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/univ-people-ebooks/detail.action?docID=668689
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Created from univ-people-ebooks on 2024-10-19 19:47:14.
Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now: Osho: 9781931412902: Amazon.com: Books. (2024).Amazon.com.
https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Osho-Daily-Meditations-Here/dp/1931412901
RhymeZone. (2018). RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus. Rhymezone.com.