The Power Of Poetry - Jill Eggleton

 The Power of Poetry - Jill Eggleton 29/7/21

What is Poetry

Encourages thinking

Exposes to imagery

Enriches vocabulary

Comprehension

Links children to think in images

Structured teaching of the alphabet - decodables are for explicit teaching of the alphabetic code 

Ch still need exposure to shared reading and enriched vocab, big book, guided leveled reading, shared reading

Exposure 

Daily Poetry Cycle

Day one -

• Warm up - familiar poem

• Focus poem  

• Tcher read aloud first to hear how it sounds

• Monday, comprehension focus, ask a few questions. Do you think this is a sad/funny/silly poem.

• Student questions- hot seat character

• Making connections-social and emotional learning

• Read aloud a poem from the teacher’s collection. No work from this, enjoyment only.

Day two

Day Four

Read aloud process at code analysis

Day five

Response to poem

Choice of poem is vital. Emphasis is not on giving knowledge but on giving enjoyment, language, passion, engagement. NOT following a theme

Poetry is a time for enjoying langage and indirectly enhance skills

Chants and Raps

Build a collection. - purpose to develop poetic thinkers

Elements of Poetry

• Rhyme

• Rhythm - important in all forms of language

• The sounds of words. Words are tools. 

• Alliteration

• Pleasant words book

• Unpleasant words book

• Quick, slow, happy, sad words book

• Meaning - the feeling fo the poem and the sound of the words is sometimes all that is needed. DOn’t over analyse.

• Word order and word choice

• Imagery, metaphor, simile, personification - Make up books of features

• Tone - shape and life to the poem

Developing Poetic Writers

Children free to bend, shape, stretch and ignore writing forms

Poetry Writing call ‘Thought Pictures’ 

Motivation - what is outside the window - Look with seeing eyes.

Write to something - Clouds

I like the way….

Awakening Your Poetry Soul