"All children
under nine or ten years of age are poets and philosophers."
---E. Dimnet,
Art of Thinking
The following six lessons
use the book The Macaroon Moon (ISBN: 978-0-913337-51-6)
to make teaching poetry
to K -- 3 elementary school children
easier for teachers,
parents and children.
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General
tips for teaching poetry
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.
"...like
a carpenter who makes a table,
a man who has written a poem has written it like that on purpose"
---Walter de la Mare, Come Hither
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