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Page 1: Poetry At A Glance Amy Mengarelli The Waymire Group Featuring Heinemann, Benchmark Education, National Geographic Learning, Lectorum, Steps to Literacy

Poetry At A Glance

Amy MengarelliThe Waymire Group

FeaturingHeinemann, Benchmark

Education, National Geographic Learning, Lectorum, Steps to

Literacy

Page 2: Poetry At A Glance Amy Mengarelli The Waymire Group Featuring Heinemann, Benchmark Education, National Geographic Learning, Lectorum, Steps to Literacy

What Does Poetry Do For Our Students?Expands Children’s Oral Language

• Builds unique patterns and forms

• Extends listening and speaking vocabulary

• Expands knowledge of complex syntax

• Develops phonological and phonemic awareness Fountas and PInnell

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What Does Poetry Do For Our Students?Expands Children’s Written Language

• Expands spoken vocabulary

• Opportunities to connect sounds within words

• Provides examples of different types of words – compound, base, contractions, plurals, etc

Fountas and PInnell

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What Does Poetry Do For Our Students?Expands Children’s Content Knowledge

• New perceptions and ideas

• Encourages humor development

• Sensitizes to forms and styles of poetry

Foutnas and Pinnell

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What Does Poetry Do For Our Students?Contributes to Social Knowledge and Skills

• Provides artistic and aesthetic experiences

• Creates a sense of community

• Provides a window to many cultures

Foutnas and Pinnell

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Selecting Poetry for Students

• Length and Number of Words

• Decodability

• Ratio of easy to harder HFW

• Sentence or phrase structure

• Vocabulary

• Ideas – types of poetryFountas and Pinnell

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Types of Poetry• Limerick

• Tongue Twister *

• Couplet

• Free Verse

• Haiku

• Cinquain *

• Diamante

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Betty Botter (tongue twister)

Betty Botter bought some butter,“But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter;If I put it in my batter,It will make my batter bitter.But a bit of better butterWill make my batter better.”So she bought a bit of butterBetter than her bitter butter,And she put it in her batter.So ‘twas better Betty BotterBought a bit of better butter.

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Betty Botter – phonogram utter

Betty Botter bought some butter,“But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter;If I put it in my batter,It will make my batter bitter.But a bit of better butterWill make my batter better.”So she bought a bit of butterBetter than her bitter butter,And she put it in her batter.So ‘twas better Betty BotterBought a bit of better butter.

Page 10: Poetry At A Glance Amy Mengarelli The Waymire Group Featuring Heinemann, Benchmark Education, National Geographic Learning, Lectorum, Steps to Literacy

Betty Botter – phonogram itter

Betty Botter bought some butter,“But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter;If I put it in my batter,It will make my batter bitter.But a bit of better butterWill make my batter better.”So she bought a bit of butterBetter than her bitter butter,And she put it in her batter.So ‘twas better Betty BotterBought a bit of better butter.

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Betty Botter - HFW

Betty Botter bought some butter,“But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter;If I put it in my batter,It will make my batter bitter.But a bit of better butterWill make my batter better.”So she bought a bit of butterBetter than her bitter butter,And she put it in her batter.So ‘twas better Betty BotterBought a bit of better butter.

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Betty Botter - Concepts• Rhythmic/alliterative poem (tongue twister)

• -utter, -itter, -atter, -it, -ill, -ake

• b, s, p

• bought, but, put, some, she, said, this, my, make

• assonance (repetition of vowel sounds) Fountas and Pinnell

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Features of

Cinquain Poetry

Five lines

Line 1 – one word

title

Line 2 – 2 descriptive

words

Line 3 – 3 action words

Line 4 – 4 “feeling”

words

Line 5 – 1 synonym to

line 1

Strong and vivid words

May tell a story

Genre Workshop Poetry

Benchmark Education

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Clouds

clouds

fluffy, puffy

shift and billow

lighter than cotton wisps

pillows

Genre Workshop PoetryBenchmark Education

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Reader Response1. How does the poem make you

feel? Why?

2. What did you visualize?

3. What words did you like? Why?

4. What personal connection can you make to the theme or message of this poem?

Genre Workshop PoetryBenchmark Education

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Analyze the Poem

1. What were the poet’s experiences to have written this poem?

2. Why do you think the poet chose this subject?

3. What other words might you have used in a poem with this theme?

Genre Workshop PoetryBenchmark Education

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Cinquain Concepts

• Subject Focus – can tie it to content

• Word Work – adjectives, verbs, synonyms

• Metacognative – analyze, visualize, infer, etc

• Writing – brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, publishing

Genre Workshop PoetryBenchmark Education

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Poetry At A Glance

• Make it fun

•Make it meaningful

•Tie it to other contents

•Link to literacy concepts

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Amy Mengarelli

The Waymire Group

[email protected]

Representing:• Heinemann• Benchmark Education• National Geographic Learning• Lectorum• Steps to Literacy

• DynaStudy• Newmark Learning


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