“What the poem is about and how it explores that material is more important than the technical means it uses. Yet by focusing on those means, we can perhaps get closer to finding out why we felt what we felt. That process can deepen our reading, enhance it, complicate it.”
This quote from聽聽provides a great rationale for reading poetry. The following resources from ReadWriteThink.org provide opportunities for students to read and appreciate poetry.
Looking for poetry suggestions? Listen to the聽Grades K 鈥� 5 Podcast Episode ““.聽In this episode, host Emily Manning and guest Sylvia Vardell explore fun ways to read poetry with children. Older students can tune in to ““.聽In honor of National Poetry Month in April, host Jennifer Buehler shares her聽recommendations of a variety of poetry books for teens.
Use the lesson plan “” to teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem.
Students read various poems and explore why lines are broken where they are and how they affect rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance in poetry in ““.
Explore reading strategies using Edgar Allan Poe鈥檚 “The Raven” and other works. In , students read Poe鈥檚 works in both large- and small-group readings then conclude with a variety of projects.
“” assists students in developing聽the cognitive tool of criteria development for discussing the aesthetics of poetry and music.
Ease students鈥� fear of interpreting complex poetry by teaching them a strategy with which they determine patterns of imagery, diction, and figurative language in order to unlock meaning with the lesson plan聽““.
How do you engage students in reading poetry?