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Apr 8, 2013 · In this blog, I described how poetry can be used at the start of the year to learn about where students come from and who they are. Poetry can allow kids to paint sketches of their lives, using metaphor, imagery and symbolic language to describe painful experiences, or parts of themselves that they're not ready to share.
- Elena Aguilar
Elena Aguilar is the author of The Art of Coaching, The Art...
- Elena Aguilar
Oct 2, 2018 · Culturally, poetry is used in varied ways. Haikus, for example, juxtapose images of the everyday, while lyric poetry expresses the personal and emotional.
- Kate North
Oct 13, 2016 · Poetry gives teachers an authentic text in which to work on phonics, phonemic awareness, and language development skills such as rhyme, word families, and alliteration …. Poems provide a simpler context for students to practice these skills, using text that is at their interest and academic levels.
- Karen Simecek, Kate Rumbold
- 2016
Poetry might seem intimidating to study at first, but it’s like any other kind of writing that we analyse – it uses language and other techniques to create an effect for the reader...
The only way poetry “is to be recognised as anything more than a minor art”, writes the modern Irish poet, John Cassidy, is “by keeping open possibilities in the language, modes of thinking and feeling which would not otherwise be registered.
Apr 30, 2020 · Poetry doesn’t need to be meticulously studied. Like a novel, you can curl up on the sofa and read it for pleasure. Oqvector/Shuttertsock
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Apr 8, 2014 · Poetry can give students a healthy outlet for surging emotions. Reading original poetry aloud in class can foster trust and empathy in the classroom community, while also emphasizing speaking and...
