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teaching poetry

  • 20-09-2009 8:00pm
    #1
    peanuthead
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    Hi there

    Can anyone give me any creative ideas for teaching poetry?

    I'm doing the PGDE this year, and while I'm really creative, I can't seem to think of cool ideas for teaching poetry!!

    Please help!!


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  • #2
    eager tortoise
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    What years are you teaching? That will make a big difference to the kinds of creative things you can attempt :) I did my PGDE last year and only had juniors for english but brought props, drama activities etc into the poetry classes. Whilst it has to be covered, I don't think its a good idea to get overly bogged down in poetry terminology. Kids are so easily turned off by the word poetry you almost have to trick them into doing it! Show them a prop beforehand related to the theme of the poem and ask them what it makes them think of...give them the title of the poem and ask them what it might be about...give them the poem w/o the title and ask them to invent one in groups...or just situate the poem in a thematic unit with other types of text and use it to stimulate discussion or written responses.


  • #3
    peanuthead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    eager tortoise wrote: »
    What years are you teaching? That will make a big difference to the kinds of creative things you can attempt :) I did my PGDE last year and only had juniors for english but brought props, drama activities etc into the poetry classes. Whilst it has to be covered, I don't think its a good idea to get overly bogged down in poetry terminology. Kids are so easily turned off by the word poetry you almost have to trick them into doing it! Show them a prop beforehand related to the theme of the poem and ask them what it makes them think of...give them the title of the poem and ask them what it might be about...give them the poem w/o the title and ask them to invent one in groups...or just situate the poem in a thematic unit with other types of text and use it to stimulate discussion or written responses.


    Some good ideas there ... I like the one about leaving out the title.

    I have 5th years for poetry though, so there are a lot of necessaries that have to be done!!


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