Chapter 9
Published on Jun 29, 2020
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Children's Poetry Preferences
- Narrative poetry and limericks were popular while free verse and haiku were not
- Students preferred poems containing rhyme, rhythm, and sound
- Children most enjoyed poetry with humor, and animals
- Elementary students preferred contemporary poems
- Students disliked those with visual imagery or figurative language
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Poetry is Many Things Children Love
- It is learning and experimenting together
- It is laughter
- It is music
- It can be unified performance
- It is stories
- It is more interesting, more impactful learning
- It is shared experiences and appreciation
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Anthologies
Bouquets of voices, highlight a variety of topics with multiple poets
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Collections
Specialized, single topic collections, poems about a particular topic written by a variety of poets
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Single Poem Picture Books
Useful for giving children a taste of more traditional and more sophisticated poets
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Verse Novels
Books cross boundaries because they are written in poetry but classified as another genre
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