Poetry+Genre+Group

=Poetry Genre Group Workspace=


 * Definition:** Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary. Poetry is an ancient form that has gone through numerous and drastic reinvention over time. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define. (www.about.com)

__The Elements of Poetry__ (McGraw-Hill: Charlotte Huck's Children's Literature) 1. Rhythm 2. Rhyme and Sound 3. Imagery 4. Fugurative Language: Comparison and Contrast 5. Shape 6. The Impact of Poetry

__Use these Guidelines for Evaluating Poetry in for Children__ http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073378569/student_view0/chapter8/evaluation_guides.html

__Here are some links to ways of integrating poetry into the classroom__: Poetry: Into the Classroom Activities http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073378569/student_view0/chapter8/into_the_classroom_activities.html - Composing Music - Experimenting with Poetry - Reader's Theater Poetry - Publishing Poetry on the Web - Art As Inspiration for Poetry - Poetry Response as Quickwrite

__Types of Poetry__ (McGraw-Hill: Charlotte Huck's Children's Literature) 1. Ballads and Narrative Poems 2. Lyrical Poetry 3. Free Verse 4. Haiku 5. Limericks 6. Concrete Poetry

__April is National Poetry Month__- find ideas at: http://teacher.scholastic.com/poetry/index.htm http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/april-national-poetry-month-20478.html

Student Created Poetry Power-Point http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3749230

Playing with Poetry Writing Ideas http://www.scholastic.com/resources/article/playing-with-poetry

Poetry for Kids http://poetry4kids.com/links.html

Reading, Writing, and Reciting Poetry http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1989/2/89.02.07.x.html#C