Inquiry Project: Love That Poetry
Literary Borrowing: The Effects of Using Poetry to Facilitate Student Created Poetry.
By: Trish Edwards
RE 5140-Advanced Children’s Literature
Dr. Pesko
Spring 2010
LOVE
THAT
POETRY
Literary Borrowing: The effects of using poetry to facilitate student created poetry.
Grade 2 NC Standard Course of Study :2.01,3.01,3.04,3.06,4.03 and 4.06
Materials
Love That Dog andHate That Catby Sharon Creech
The following poem copied on large chart paper along with student copies:
Day 1:The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams (free verse/imagery)
Day 2:dog by Valerie Worth (free verse/imagery)
Day 3:The Tiger by William Blake (alliteration/repetition)
Day 4:Street Music by Arnold Adoff (onomatopoeia/rhyme)
Day 5:The Apple by S.C. Rigg (concrete poetry)
Day 6:Love That Boy by Walter Dean Myers (point of view/repetition/simile)
Posters with poetry terms, definitions and examples
Spiral notebooks for each student
Procedure: The Writing Workshop
- Introduce one poem a day teaching poetry elements (15 minutes)
- Read aloud and discuss the elements
- Give students a copy to practice reading to a partner
- Glue in poetry notebook and illustrate
- Poetry writing (5 minutes)
- Teacher/ peer conferencing (10 minutes)
- Sharing (5 minutes)
At Day 5, I began reading Love That Dog during read-aloud, discussing the pages read and continued with the writing workshop. Once we finished the book, we began to read Hate That Cat during shared reading and then continued to write poems during the writing workshop.
Culminating Activity
*Students choose 4 of their favorite poems, that they wrote, and make a poetry book with a table of contents.
*Students choose their favorite poem to post on the class blog.
Vocabulary
Alliteration- the repetition of beginning sounds.
Concrete Poetry- words make the shape of what the poem is about.
Free verse- poetry that doesn’t follow any particular rules
Imagery- words an author uses to help the reader visualize and imagine with the senses.
Onomatopoeia- words that imitate sound.
Repetition- repeats.
Rhyme -two or more words that end with the same sound.
Simile- a comparison that says one thing is like another and usually uses the words “like” or “as”.
Check out these websites:
Class Blog:
The following are poem books that can be used to immerse the students into poetry:
Shel Silverstein books
In Boris by Cynthia Rylant (free verse format)
Cat Poems by Dave Crawley (24 cat poems)
If Not for the Catby Jack Prelutsky(17 animal riddles in haiku)
What A Day It Was At School by Jack Prelutsky (poems about school)
Dogku by Andrew Clements (story in haiku)
Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers by Mary Ann Hoberman (poems about family)
Meet Danitra Brown by Nikki Grimes (poems describing a girl’s life)
Very Hairy Bear by Alice Schertle (rhyme/alliteration)
Tessa’s Tip-Tapping Toes by Carolyn Crimi (snappy prose)
I’m Dirty by Kate and Jim McMullan (alliteration)
Water Hole Waiting by Jane and Christopher Kurtz (lyrical writing)
African acrostics: A word in edgeways by A. Harley & D. Noyes
Silver Seeds: A book of nature poems by Paolilli, Noyes & Johnson(acrostic poems)
Autumn: An alphabet acrostic by S. Schnur
Spring: An alphabet acrostic by S. Schnur
Summer: An alphabet acrostic by S. Schnur
Winter: An alphabet acrostic by S. Schnur