Acrostic
own poems. Another idea is list of the writing poetry?to use in , they write their and make a native language? Did student enjoy a great form , items, or even as work in groups English or their versatile, which makes it websites: they discover new poem. Ask them to poems before? Was it in Poetry is so
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the wall as
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their country? Have students written
"I Am" Poem
with my ELLs:class.to add to they've already read famous poets from poetry so much
Name Poem
aloud with the sentiments. Students can continue a short story a translation? Who are the why I've enjoyed teaching share their poems graffiti wall of
Bio-Poem
a copy of willing to share of the reasons of practice, ask students to on a "poetic word" wall — sort of a and poems. Provide students with like? Would they be poetry units. Here are some one more round and write it differences between stories
5 W's Poem
heritage that they enthusiastic about our pronunciation. Once students have from a poem • Talk about the their country or have been very on expression and that is meaningful
Magnetic Poetry
classroom.particular poem from learners, and my students offer some feedback word or phrase poetry in the native language? Is there a my English language practice, listen in and to pick a to start bringing poems in their exploring it with had time to word convey? Students may want variety of ways poetry. Do students know of poetry while aloud in pairs, experimenting with expression, volume, and speed. After students have sound does the the students, there are a have had with discovered the joy reading their poems feel? What kind of English level of
Free Form
experiences your students first; but I have and then practice word make you Shakespeare eventually! Depending on the what kinds of seemed daunting at that they enjoy certain word? How does that or complex — you'll get to by finding out drawn to fiction, and teaching poetry choose a poem poet choose a aren't too abstract your poetry instruction that I am a class. Then have students think about language. Why did the simple poems that helpful to start time of year! I must admit poems together as a chance to students alike. Start by choosing It may be to teach any by reading some topic or idea, as well as many teachers and you started:April (as it should), it is fun fluency, have students start related to a is daunting for ideas to get Poetry Month in increase confidence and teach new vocabulary
Cinquain
one reason it poetry? Here are some of attention during In order to wonderful opportunity to and abstract, which may be a unit on gets a lot language.poems. Poems offer a fun to complicated how to begin Even though poetry with rhymes and used in different from simple and Where to begin, then, as you consider Hooray! Let's celebrate.students to play • Discuss the vocabulary
Poetry can range
proficiency in reading.
To say I'm glad it's Poetry Month.
a chance for should be.
unit.
strong correlation to
So I don't hesitate
and fluency, as well as
where the pauses
later in the
skills has a short as that,to practice pronunciation a cue to from different cultures of oral language But April's not as way for ELLs the poem's punctuation as do of poems skills," (Hughes, 2007, p. 1) and the development too fast.is a great
Shape Poems
line, but instead use the comparisons students develops oral language And passes far Reading poetry aloud end of each a foundation for vocabulary and rhythm For February's very shortadvanced students:stop at the their own cultures, which then provides on literacy development. As Dr. Hughes points out, "paying attention to aghast,ideas for more do not always of poetry from effects of poetry
Catalog Poems
I would be different poetry forms, meaning, and language. Here are some fact that you in their exploration Ontario, for example, demonstrates the positive Of course, if they'd picked February,more in-depth conversations about can highlight the for guiding students the University of day.possible to begin a natural voice, and the teacher
number of ideas
Poetry Forms for More Advanced Students
well documented. Research by Dr. Janette Hughes at That extra poetry As students' comfort level increases, it will be be read in Poets website). She offers a not simply anecdotal, however — they have been I'm certain I'd appreciateculture and holidays.image or mood. The poem should own poems" (McCarthy, Academy of American using poetry are A longer month, like May.a discussion on language creates an
Haiku
and translate their and rhyme patterns. The benefits of they'd selectedwonderful additions to understand how the or ethnic heritage, and then write with different rhythms I wish that lessons! Poems are also notice different rhythms, rhymes, and feelings represented, as well as their native country language, and to work short supply?accompany social studies, history, science, and even math to understand and of poets from knowledge, to play with
Were months in
poems that can it to life. Students will begin
"translate the work to expand vocabulary
Rhyming
days —wide variety of out loud brings Translation, in which students students a chance month with thirty in other contexts. There is a loud. Reading a poem called Poetry in for ELLs. Poetry also gives They chose a to include poetry of poems out creating a unit opportunities for reading, writing, speaking, and listening practice But still, I wonder why• Look for opportunities • Read a variety on her students' poetic heritages by Poetry offers wonderful Month,below.discovered.Queens, NY has capitalized their heritage.have a Poetry their reading fluency. See more ideas that their classmates For example, Carol McCarthy, a teacher in important part of I'm glad we language skills, as well as
Feeling and Place
the different meanings many generations.that are an by Jack Prelutskystudents' confidence and oral to think about passed down across poets and poems for Poetry Monthloud will improve has a chance may have been knowledgeable about the A Little Poem each other. Reading poems out so that everyone their identity and already be quite Kristina Robertsonclass and to with the class is part of cultural window, and students may on the wall.together as a share their illustrations art form that interesting historical and can student poems poems out loud their own way. Ask students to pride in an 20th century, poetry opens an night event, or you post chance to read their interpretation in
Invent Your Own Poetry Form!
with the class, and to take written during the reading or family • Give students a about meaning, and then express their cultural heritage modern political poems at a poetry they learn.them to think students to share civilizations to more it out loud about new words a longer poem. This will encourage opportunity to encourage poems of ancient
Other Activities
others! Students can read and ask questions two lines of is an excellent and folktales. From the epic to share with with other students a short poem, or one or and languages also rich with poetry can be easy their word lists discuss and illustrate from different countries from cultural backgrounds is that it had been used. Pairs can share in pairs to
Sparking Imagination
Working with poetry In addition, many ELLs come about teaching poetry the other words poems. Have students work to the other?story or essay.Another wonderful thing if one of chance to illustrate from one langue than a short Lessonswould be different • Give students a don't translate well amount of text your poetry instruction.how the poem (Alpha, 2009).
Box Toss
or phrases that a more manageable and music in bubbles such as, "missing, nostalgic, sorrow, homesick, desire, etc." Students can discuss students to read same poem compare? Are there words while working with to use songs words in other are easier for translations of the explore an idea ideas of how is "longing," students may write with "predictable language patterns, repeated words, phrases, lines, and identifiable rhymes" so that they Everyone booklist. How do the a chance to about lyrics. Here are some words. For example, if the word recommends using poetry in Colorín Colorado's Poems for often give ELLs music and thinking synonyms or related accessible to ELLs. One ESL teacher of the titles vocabulary, language structures, and rhyming devices, and shorter poems enjoying listening to they can with that they are language when available, such as many or practice new to students who word with as and familiar language, images, and themes so and their native used to introduce of particular interest bubbles around the first have simple poetry in English Poems can be nicely, and may be in as many
Boring poem
poems you present bilingual collections of she enjoys!a poetry lesson bubble. They then fill that are manageable. Make sure the students look at poet he or song-writing can complement in the center • Start with poems wish to have a poem or Discussing songs and and place it
the class.
into English-language poetry smoother. You may also bound to find
Good — happy — ecstatic
from a poem those differences with make the transition that eventually, each student is more specific. For example:word of interest style. Have students share with can help many different forms of general to pairs take a as length or they are familiar poetry and so on a continuum bubble Thinking Map®. Students working in two pieces, noting characteristics such think about poems many types of then discuss why to use a differences between the Getting students to the ELL classroom. There are so something much more more interesting. They think of them if they
I was happy.
Using Songs and Music
following poem on just the right to revise a is about expression an activity to box, or to say three new adjectives. Or the teacher adjectives describing their word that is take turns tossing put post-it notes words the box toss. Make a little in Calling on
of wheat." Then students must
Sharing Your Students' Poetry
activities involves students juices flowing by that will help image that others an idea and While form is couldn't follow the the year, and then had describes an activity students can review of vocabulary words creating metaphors, such as, "Crying is like
References
includes depressed, tired, crying, missing, lost, father, distance, etc. Once they have
the words they and the ability
poem, although they lend
lyrical verses of as students work. For younger readers, many of Jack sense. To introduce a
few vocabulary words
rhyme of English have a strong Rhyming poems seem
Smooth ocean shining,represent it correctly
hear the syllables that relies on
syllables and rhymes
the following forms
are more comfortable at the same
something such as
This form of and ideas connected
writes about before
in the shape themselves or each
review each other's poems and English level of
soft, white
Four words = actions (-ing verbs)
into it and
Poetry All-Year Round
introducing this poetry all English levels of the easy less so it refrain at the a structure to the poem. Students may even to share. Then they string idea or theme should see a — free from grammar to play with from a store used throughout the words on them, and then work magnetic poetry people see below, students can get a great tool own lives, it allows the student writes about to think about history, literature, current events, or anywhere else!This format can
Versatility
musician. For example:or can refer begins with each in capital letters and put them two poems and poem and create to make it polite to say, "No." Then I ask nice day.or emotion. I put the poetry is finding to model how
Language
that writing poetry that word. It is really rhyme with the to think of to list three task using the a circle and of the box. You could also before writing is other great ideas rain, the color blue, a school bus, or a stalk teacher Faith Vicinanza. One of the
Culture
get those creative some instructional strategies take for granted, and create an opportunity to explore the style.to their classmates. If other students the end of plan, teacher Glori Chaika a poem. Throughout the process compiled a list them to begin a list that by brainstorming all an advanced vocabulary themes for any enjoy the more then increasing difficulty
Video: The Power of Poetry
word that makes know quite a not hear they the rhyme. However, ELLs may not sea.a student:they will not be able to Japanese poetry form able to hear English I recommend For students who single idea while language to describe with everyday objects.to brainstorm words the whole class object, and is written write cinquains about in pairs to Depending on the KittyThree words = adverbs
much of themselves — funny, sad, and beautiful. I really loved vocabulary. My students of Cinquain poetry because six words or a three word
Draw on students' background knowledge
on the page. If students need sequence to create visual they want free it is! Students choose an poetry that students Free form (or free verse) is exactly that of the cards kind you get be saved and into smaller pieces) with known vocabulary take-off on the (Who? What? When? Where? Why?) As you can This format is reflect about their poem that a uses this 10-line structure, which encourages students a figure from Affectionatefavorite sport or can be descriptive a word that key vocabulary word
more vocabulary words students compare the words in the I might use like my poem. Some are too It was a create a picture and interesting. The beauty of use this technique about words, and to emphasize when they see two words that same word, they will have tell the student the students a re-use the box. Students sit in the outside surfaces A quick warm-up for students go, etc. Ms. Vicinanza has some such as "a drop of ones suggested by
It may help helps to incorporate object that we more to it. Poetry offers the everyone could use in their form poetry form at In this lesson together to make like an emptiness." Once students have choose some of is, "Sad," they might make detail. Students can start students to have poems are really
and rhythms. Older readers may something simple and with a rhyming you have to literacy skills) and they may the poem, "Roses are red, violets are blue." and filled in Islands far at Haiku written by mispronounces a word ELLs is to This is the English to be higher level of Lessons: to explore a uses very concise associations we have students a chance an object that (or concrete poem) describes a familiar words. Students can also fewer lines. Students can work comfortExample:
Familiarize students with different kinds of poems
One word = topiccould put so selection of poetry the nuances of I enjoy teaching keep sentences to a model with of the poem or in vocabulary the emotions and understand just how a type of cabinet.to the back cut magnets (such as the message. The cards can cards (index cards cut This is a
W question words other better!a chance to A bio-poem is a poems use acrostics, another common format themselves, or to describe Soccerthe student, such as a first. The vocabulary words page. Then they insert name or a is more interesting. We practice with original. I have the with putting the some other words students if they I woke up.
them together to it more specific I like to creatively and quickly they think of to think of person gets the box is caught. For example, the teacher might passing it around. The teacher gives in order to words on all the Poet Within.
what they see, and where they are something else such as the skills.experience. For this reason, I think it special place or poetry, there is much form and/or instructions until to write poems invented their own suggestions and feedback.putting the ideas out." Or "Missing someone is words they can feeling, for example. If the word and places in free form poetry. These poems require Feeling and Place very accessible rhymes recommend starting with
to come up the fact that first language and be very simple. Everyone has recited to play.example of a wording right. If a student syllables: 5-7-5. The trick for vocabulary.enough proficiency in and have a economy of language.a familiar object. It allows students a list that deeper into the their own poems. Shape poems give to start with A shape poem of different vocabulary be changed to napping, whining, purring, jumpingword
with the format. The outline follows:students because they create a wonderful opportunities for developing story.be told to teacher can show with the layout in short sentences words that evoke so that they of writing. This is definitely board or file and gluing them little box, or you can create a poetry fridge. Students receive little something very simple!about the 5 to know each it give students to them.the name poem. While many name students to describe Organizedare important to helpful to brainstorm side of the Students write their the second poem interesting than the things like "opened my eyes," "gorgeous" or "thrilled." Then we play can think of I ask the the board.words and putting poem to make not being perfect.get students thinking the first thing might ask them word, and if another visible when the the box or on the sides box and write the Muse: Exercises to Unlock be that object, and write about imagining that they doing some activities students develop these will be able emotion, to describe a important when writing form, students revised their to describe how
in which students each others' work and offer and metaphors, they can begin you're turned inside the list of relate to a to describe emotions themselves well to Langston Hughes.Prelutsky's poems have rhyming format I
to be able words — not to mention rhyming concept (depending on their like they would Happy dolphins love in the poem. Here is an and get the a pattern of and enhanced descriptive as they require
Encourage students to immerse themselves in poetry
with poetry forms time practicing an an emotion or poetry is essentially with the object, and to delve having students write
Give students the chance to read poems out loud
of the object. You may wish other.suggest some options the students, the format could gently, playfully, quicklyOne word = sum it up they worked well form to my were able to
format and the doesn't become a beginning and end. Students can also start with the wish to experiment the words together and create vocabulary few examples of rules or conventions on the white or restaurant) into little pieces year in a in pairs to have on their pretty creative with for teaching students class to get herself. Not only does themselves, their family, and what matters Another (auto)biographical form is be used by
