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Values of Poetry for Children

Values of Poetry for Children. Pure enjoyment knowledge of world appropriate language and expand vocabulary identify with people and situations. Familiar moods and feelings Insights into themselves and others Sensitivity to universal needs and feelings. NCTE Outstanding Poets.

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Values of Poetry for Children

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  1. Values of Poetry for Children • Pure enjoyment • knowledge of world • appropriate language and expand vocabulary • identify with people and situations

  2. Familiar moods and feelings • Insights into themselves and others • Sensitivity to universal needs and feelings

  3. NCTE Outstanding Poets • 1977 David McCord • 1978 Aileen Fisher • 1979 Karla Kuskin • 1980 Myra Cohn Livingston • 1981 Eve Merriam • 1982 John Ciardi • 1985 Lillian Moore

  4. 1988 Arnold Adoff • 1991 Valerie Worth • 1994 Barbara Esbensen • 1997 Eloise Greenfield • 2000

  5. Newbery Winners • 1982 Nancy Willard’s A Visit to William Blake’s Inn • 1989 Sid Fleisman’s A Joyful Noise

  6. New York Times Best Seller List • 1981 Shel Silverstein’s A Light in the Attic; Best Seller List 182 weeks • 1982 T.S. Elliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats; CATS -- musical • 3 million copies sold Where the Sidewalks Ends

  7. Poems Children Prefer • Contemporary poems • Poems about familiar & enjoyable experiences • Story poems • Humor • Poems with rhythm & rhyme

  8. Criteria for Selecting Poetry • Exciting meters & rhythms • Sound & word play • Strong imagery • Simple stories, lots of action

  9. Not condescending • Children required to interpret and extend • Delightful, happy, funny • Good enough to be read repeatedly

  10. Elements of Poetry • Rhythm • Rhyme and other Sound Patterns • alliteration • assonance • onomatopoeia

  11. Repetition • Imagery • metaphors • similes • personification • hyperbole • Shape

  12. Forms of Poetry • Lyric • Narrative • Ballads • Limericks • Concrete Poems • Haiku

  13. Poems and Poets • Nursery Rhymes • Nature Poems • Characters, Situations, and Locations • Moods and Feelings • Animals • Witches and Ghosts

  14. Edward Lear • Lewis Carroll • Laura E. Richards • Shel Silverstein • Jack Prelutsky • William Jay Smith • John Ciardi

  15. Robert Frost • Aileen Fisher • Byrd Baylor • Paul Fleischman • Myra Cohn Livingston • Valerie Worth • David McCord

  16. Langston Hughes • Cynthia Rylant

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