Read PoetryAnd Open Your Imagination

4th Grade Communication Arts

Created by Julie Pettyjohn

By the end of this interactive presentation, you will be familiar with six forms of poetry and be ready to write two of your own poems as a class assignment.

This exercise builds toward GLE Reading:2. Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend and evaluate fiction, poetry, and drama from a variety of cultures and times.Level Grade 4: Recognize the text features of fiction, poetry, and drama in grade-level context.

Directions

On the main menu (next slide), find six forms of poetry. Start with any one you like, but return to the main menu after each section until you have completed all six.

Take the quiz after you have read all six sections.

After the quiz, advance to the Summary and open the Word document to do your writing assignment.

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Sources

http ://teacher.net http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm#issa http://www.pbskids.org http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku International Reading Association.

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=43 Knock at a Star: A Child’s Introduction to Poetry, X.J. Kennedy

and Dorothy M. Kennedy Los Angeles County Office of Education. http://teams.lacoe.edu Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Main Menu – Poetry Palace

Narrative

Limerick

Lyric Haiku

Free Verse

Cinquain

Narrative Poems

A narrative poem tells a story. Sometimes the lines rhyme.

Sometimes they do not rhyme.

Example: Narrative

The PuristI give you now Professor Twist,

A conscientious scientist.

Trustees exclaimed, “He never bungles!”

And sent him off to distant jungles.

Camped on a tropic riverside,

One day he missed his loving bride.

She had, the guide informed him later,

Been eaten by an alligator.

Professor Twist could not but smile.

“You mean,” he said, “a crocodile.”

by Ogden Nash

Limerick Poems

Limericks are usually funny or silly. They have a rhythm or beat and a

rhyming pattern.

Example: Limerick

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too(Here is one stanza, not the entire poem.)

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too

Went for a ride in a flying shoe.

“Hooray!”

“What fun!”

It’s time we flew!”

Said Icke Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too.

by Shel Silverstein

Free Verse Poems Free verse poems have no real

rhythm or pattern. Sometimes the author places the

words of the poem on the page in a pattern to reflect the subject.

Let your imagination soar when you write a free-verse poem.

Example: Free VerseFor a Quick Exit For going up or coming down,In big department stores in town. you take an escalator. (They come in pairs.) Or else an elevator. (Also stairs.)I wish storekeepers would provide a s l i d e

!

by Norma Farber

Haiku Poems Haiku poetry began in Japan. A haiku has three short lines. Traditional Japanese Haiku had five

syllables on line 1, seven syllables on line 2, and five on line 3. This rule is not usually followed in English.

To write a Haiku, think of a subject and write thoughts, not sentences.

Examples: HaikuPoverty’s child –

he starts to grind the rice,and gazes at the moon.

by Basho, Matsuo

Now the swing is still,a suspended tirecenters the autumn moon.

by Nicholas Virgilio

Lyrics

Lyric poems express feelings and emotion.

Lyrics put with music are songs.

Example: LyricBlowin’ in the WindHow many roads must a man walk downbefore you call him a man?Yes, ‘n’ how many seas must a white dove sailbefore she sleeps in the sand?Yes, ‘n’ how many times must the cannon balls flybefore they’re forever banned?The answer, my friend, is blown’ in the wind.The answer is blowin’ in the wind.

by Bob Dylan

Cinquain Poems

There are exactly five lines (from the French word “cinq,” which means five)

Line 1: 1 word (subject of the poem) Line 2: 2 words (adjectives that describe line

1) Line 3: 3 words (action verbs relating to line 1) Line 4: 4 words (feelings or a complete

sentence) Line 5: 1 word (that sums up line one or is a

synonym of line one)

Examples: CinquainTriangles

pointy, edgedrevolving, rotating, anglingTriangles are all different.

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Anonymous

Studentsboy, girl

playing, studying, growingI like my students.

achievers

by Mrs. PettyjohnKeyboardfun, new

reading, laughing, writingYou have new messages.

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Are you ready to take a short quiz?

YesI am ready to

begin

NoI’ll go back to

the Main Menu and

review some more.

Question 1Read the poem and select the form of poetry that best represents the style in which it is written.

That Lovable Old Issaby Earle Joshua Stone

Come over with meand together let’s playOh, motherless sparrow.

Free

verse

Haik

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Cinquai

nLyric

Correct!Way to go!

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Question 2Read a selection from the poem, “Paul Bunyan” and select the form of poetry that best represents the style in which it is written.

Paul Bunyan by Shel Silverstein

He rode through the woods on a big blue ox.He had fists as hard as choppin’ blocks,Five hundred pounds and nine feet tall … that’s Paul.

Talk about workin’, when he swung his axeYou could hear it ring for a mile and a half.Then he’d yell, “Timber!” and down she’d fall … for Paul.

Free verse

Cinquain

Lyric

Narrative

Correct!Go to question 3

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Question 3Read the poem below and select the form of poetry that best represents the style in which it is written.

Oops by Shel Silverstein

DownUpsideOutComeAllPoemsMy

Free verse

FoundICan’tButTryDoI

AroundAllThemTurnNotCanI

DownUpsideOutComeAllPoemsMy

Haiku

Cinquain Narrative

Correct!Go to question 4!

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Question 4Read the poem and select the form of poetry that best represents the style in which it is written.

Magic by Shel Silverstein

Sandra’s seen a leprechaun,Eddie touched a troll,Laurie danced with witches once,Charlie found some goblins’ gold.Donald heard a mermaid sing,Susie spied an elf,But all the magic I have known,I’ve had to make myself.

Free verse

Narrative

Limerick

Lyric

Correct!You completed the quiz!

Oops!Try question 4 again

Summary You are now familiar with six different forms of poetry.

– A narrative poem tells a story– Limericks are funny or goofy– Haiku is a three-line form of poetry from Japan– Free verse has no rules and is creative– Cinquains are poems with five lines that follow a word

number pattern– You can sing lyrics

Now, you are ready to write a few poems. Click on the Word icon and write one Haiku poem and one Cinquain.– Put your name on the page– Print your assignment and turn in the printed page

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