Poetry

Many kids learn to not like poetry...

To build Appreciation

• we (teachers) need to share poems of different types with our students for no particular reason

Forms of poetry

Narritive poem

• tells a story
• children usually enjoy these

Lyric Poem

• is melodic or songlike
• generally is descriptive

Limericks

• are humorous poems
• the ryhming scheme and verse pattern is familiar to children

Haiku

• has a total of 17 syllables
• a line of 5, a line of 7, then another line of 5

Free Verse

• it is mostly unrhymed and lacks a consistent rhythm
• topics are normally abstract

Reversos

• Reading from top to bottom is one poem, then read from bottom to top is another; tells two different stories

COncrete poems

• written or printed on a page in a shape representing the poems object
• meant to be seen more than heard

Build a collection filled with a number of poems to match different tastes a levels.

*Do not rely on textbooks to provide poetry for your classroom*