- For sheer enjoyment
- It is after all, a intergral aspect of almost every culture i know of...it is in the songs!
- It evokes feelings ... The imagery appeals to all our senses
- It encourages imagination, allowing us to draw and paint images, even those we have not experienced.
- It is prove that language is thought...thought expressed in beautiful and meaningful choice of words
- It is about life...its joys, sorrows, love, hate, war, peace, beauty, ugliness, etc
- it teaches values and develops and promotes expression of thought
Activities...activities...activities
1. Illustrate a poem...get students drawing, painting.
2. Move to the poem...get students stamping, jumping, dancing, tapping, struting....
3. Predict missing words with a cloze poem
4. Do jazz chants
5. Substituting words in the poem with words of opposite meaning and discuss the change in meaning
6. Do creative recitals...strategies like ' I read to you, You read to me', paired and reciprocal reading.
Use the poems in the literature component in creative ways....your students will adore you for it and most importantly...they will be actively using the language.
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