Teacher Lesson Plan
Educators are always looking for a new, innovative teacher lesson plan to teach their students poetry in the classroom. My Word Wizard has developed the following lesson plan to help teach poetry to kids.
Learning poetry at an
early age can be beneficial to a
child's development. Try teaching some of the ideas presented below and
then have your students submit their own work to be shown on
My Word Wizard!
Learning Intention
To entertain and extend the student writer's imagination.
Success Criteria
- Cultivate an appreciation for different genres of poetry
- Develop skills in analyzing poetry
- Recognize the influence of culture and experience on a poet's work
- Explore, recognize and use patterns in a variety of poem structures.
- Experiment with the effects created by words.
- Discover the quality of sounds produced by rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration.
- Explore the use of similes, metaphors, and figurative language.
- Use poems you have read as models for your own writing.
Poetry Vocabulary
One of the biggest
points to emphasize when teaching poetry to students
is to ensure they have a firm knowledge of basic poetry vocabulary.
Ballad:
Tells a story or
describes a person or thing. Has
a regular rhyme pattern, very often having four lines per verse, with
the 2nd and 4th lines rhyming.
Free Verse:
Can be used to create an
atmosphere and express mood or
feeling. Has an irregular rhythm.
Line:
A unit of verse
consisting of words in a single
row.
Stanza:
A verse of a poem.
Sonnet:
A
poem that has 14 lines and its usual rhyme scheme is ab-ba-ab-ba,
followed
by two or three other rhymes in the remaining six lines.
Verse:
A division of a poem.
Poetry Lesson Plan Topics
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