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General
Tips For Teaching Poetry to K -- 3 elementary school children
using
The Macaroon Moon (ISBN: 978-0-913337-51-6):
1. Ask students to memorize
the poems in The Macaroon Moon and recite them.
2. Read poems from The
Macaroon Moon aloud to your students.
3. Ask students to create
their own book of favorite poems by any author.
4. Introduce a new poetic
form each week and give examples of poems that use — or reinvent the form.
5. Publish a special anthology
of student poems in your class newsletter or on your class Web Site.
6. Create a class poem asking
each student to contribute a line. Assemble three or four students in front
of the class together as they do with the comedians on the television program,
Whose Line Is It Anyway.
7. Give students a list
of words and ask them to create a poem using those words.
8. Invite students to write
poems in response to their favorite poems in The Macaroon Moon
(or to their favorite songs, TV shows or pieces of art).
9. Hold workshops where
students discuss the poems in The Macaroon Moon.
10. Tape students reading
their own poems or poems from The Macaroon Moon; share the tapes
with parents and friends at school open houses.
11. Decorate your classroom
with illustrated poems and pictures of poets.
Also
read the following five lessons using the book The Macaroon Moon
to
make teaching poetry to K -- 3 elementary school children
easier
for teachers, parents and children.
Link prior
knowledge to the poetry in The Macaroon Moon
Poetic
grammar and language lesson
Use the poetry in The
Macaroon Moon as a tool
to teach reading
Reading
and discussing The Macaroon Moon:
Encourage literary criticism
from young children
Write
a poem about color using the poem "fog" in The Macaroon Moon.
"A
teacher who can arouse a feeling...for one single good poem,
accomplishes
more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows
of
natural objects, classified with name and form."
---Johann
Wolfgang Von Goethe
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