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poetry
By Cheryl
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I agree that in order to get your students to write poetry, they must enjoy and appreciate it. Help them out of the trap of believing poetry means "rhyming." Read Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, throw in some Frost...
Let them play with words. I keep a whole basket of words (I started with a small supply, the kids have added to it over the years). They love to draw words from the basket and rearrange them to make kooky sentences and phrases. Sometimes it works out beautifully! A really great intro to poetry, I think, is color poems. Model brainstorming a list of ideas and images the class | |
thinks of for a given color. My class and I recently made a "Black" poem with images ranging from spiders to sadness to football to September 11. With a focus like a color, they really go wild. I was so surprised by the response. Truly poetic.Good luck. Poetry can be fun and powerful.
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