Playing around with poetry .nz
Playing around with poetry
A unit for teachers and students to explore and have fun with different forms of poetry, to listen, read aloud and perform for an audience.
Teacher Anne Girven
|YEAR |LEVEL | |
|7-8 |4 | |
Teacher background reading
• Helping Children Find and Enjoy The Poetic Side of Life
Provides an overview of classroom and family poetry opportunities.
• Poetic Forms - The ballad
• Oral Language - English Exemplar Project
English teaching and learning ideas for a related unit
These learning activities can be used and adapted to meet the needs of your students if you are undertaking a unit related to this topic.
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Learning task 3
Gather and display a poetry (RTF 5KB) : rhymes, ballads, free verse, narrative poems, nonsense poems, limericks, haiku, cinquain.
Throughout the unit students to independently read a selection of poetry and keep a record of poems read.
Links for students
Collaborative online projects:
• International Poetry Exchange
Resources
Print
• Hall, R. Sea Poetry Wayland
• Harvey, A. Shades of Green Red Fox Books, Guernsey Press
• Huck, C. Secret Places New York: Greenwillow Books
• Moon, P. Earthlines Pimlico Pub. Ltd
• A Packet of Poems Oxford University Press
• School Journals
• Library Books
• Students' own resources
Electronic
• Outta Ray's Head Poetry Lessons
• Knowing Ourselves and Others Through Poetry
• Poet's Pantry Field Trip
• Helping Children Find and Enjoy The Poetic Side of Life
• Yahooligans Poetry
• Edward Lear Home Page
• Glossary of Writing and Literary Terms
• Poems from Murphy Elementary School, 5th Grade
• Poetic Form - The ballad
Follow up
Students use these skills for writing poems in a selected form. Students share and respond to the poems of others in small groups.
A class anthology could be made and illustrated using the students' writing. See an student_poems (RTF 2MB) of student work.
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