Chapter 8

Students Disliking poetry

• Bad teaching strategies
• Students don't understand it
• Over analyzing

Teachers should...when teaching poetry

• Use rhythmic, humorous verse
• Share poems (for fun)
• Read poems out loud
• Have a good knowledge of poetry
• Have personal favorites to share

Forms of poetry

• Narrative poems: Tell stories
• Lyric poems: Songlike
• Limericks: humorous poems
• Haiku: 17 syllables-- line of 5, a line of 7, & another line of 5

forms of poetry continued

• Free verse: unrhymed, doesn't have a perfect rhythm, abstract
• Reversos: Two poems--when read from top to bottom it has one meaning & when read from bottom to top it has another
• Concrete poem: poem is written in the shape of the poem's subject

poetry in the classroom

• Should have a variety to interest all students
• Children's books offer a lot of options for finding poetry
• Teachers can find poems in anthologies, poetry collections, single-poem picture books, or verse novels.

Teachers should try to help children build an appreciation for poetry.