Methodology to teach poetry

In my last post I was focused on some teaching resources that teacher can use on poetry. But now I am going to treat to the methodology. Poetry requires a lot of knowledge from the teacher and that it can take their students to the understanding, creation and imagination in the same, so, I hope give you some keys of this topic.

When you want to teach it there are three approaches that we have into account. These are:

Cultural approach: we need to establish connections between the context and poem, for example, they could learn historical and cultural circumstances as those related to authorship and these are relevant when reading a text.

Language approach: Poetry, in this case, is concentrated in the word, and how the author produces effects on the reader. Also, we can focus on interpretation and the meaning of it.

Personal approach: about this, teachers need to use this approach to cause, encourage the curiosity and feelings to students. Besides, they could transmit their thinks, feels or opinions.

That you can see you have to connected all of this when you teach because students have to feel part of it, involve them.

So  many teacher create a special place where students can feel emotions or compare with something nearer to them or they explain what story is happened in the poem through a bit role playing or performance or using a song but all of these ideas have to treated  through three approach.

In my opinion, I think that the most important thing is to make our students feel comfortable when learn poetry because there are many children that hate poetry for my reason but I believe that solution is on teachers.

Have a very good week classmate.

See you soon

Andrea.

Some Poetry Teaching Resources

Hello everyone

In this post I'm going to make a reflection about the last lesson. It was focused on Poetry. I would like to research about how e can change the perspective of this because most of children do not feel attraction with poetry and I want to give to some resources to get the maximum efficiency.

Poetry consisted on a type of literature, also it is written in verse, as opposed to prose, often written in metrical lines. These written are called poems. They usually have a rhythm, rhyme, metaphor, and other such artistic techniques to express an idea, feelings, or a story. But all is this, often is very bored and frustrated to children because they do not understand the vocabulary that use or how they have to do to create one.

Have you ever wondered how to get your students excited about poetry?

The Poetry Teaching Resources offers a lot of variety of materials to help us and our students to teach this.

Here you'll find graphic organizers and other resources to assist you and your students in exploring the power of poetry.

·         Poetic Thoughts Graphic Organizer

·         Literary Moods

·         Literary Mood Ring Graphic Organizer

·         Friendship Cinquain Activity

·         Poetry Terminology Cards

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Also, there are some books that can help it. For example:

·         Poetry Matters by Ralph Fletcher

Poetry Matters is the most amazing book that as teacher as students can feel a little comfortable. It will change the way you think about poetry. It is ideal to use to in second year. The author shows why´s important in writing poetry because poets can break the rules so kids who normally have trouble writing seem to excel in writing free verse.

·         Poetry Books by Kristine O'Connell George

Kristine O'Connell George is another favorite children's author and poet. She writes simple yet beautiful poems that reach out to kids and connect with them.

I hope that like my post.  THANCK YOU

ANDREA

Looking for motivation…??

Looking for motivation…??

Hello everybody

I do not know if you have into account the type of assessment that our teacher is doing. Do you feel that it is useful? Do you feel motivated?

Raquel uses positive reinforcement or reward through prize or public recognition of our extra effort. She usually gives stickers for you individual or group effort, mentions your post in “Wall of fame” and does competition on Hogwarts' Wall, so there are different ways of motivation.

But, what is the positive reinforcement or reward?

Theoretically, teachers often have difficulties to find ways to motivate students. Some of them can lose the interest of the subject or not feel bound by the educational materials. Teachers have to find ways to increase student interest.

Here you can see some activities or resorces that can use  assess through it and motivate your students:

·         Games: it is a great motivation resource. It is very useful to Raquel. She uses in many activities every day. For example, the Frozen frame. The finality is that students can develop their knowledge and content on a fun way.

·         Reward: it is something that teacher gives to students that she considers that they are doing a high work or task. Moreover, rewards are usually stickers or something like than but the important point is publish recognition so this does that they are proud of themselves.

·         Decisions: sometimes it is important to give prominence to the class and they are they who have to decide who should receive a reward. This activity can be done through individual or team votes. As you can see we have had to vote, like authors’ activity and reading map.

·       Working in group: the students have to know work in group so like Raquel does with us instead of assessing students in the traditional way, students can demonstrate their knowledge of course content through competitions.

To conclude, I think that our teacher is a good example because she uses it at the appropriate time. In my opinion, it is important to make our students feel motivated for their learning process could be better. Therefore, our role as teachers is to promote their motivation through activities that capture your attention so in this topic Rachel is expert, she is a great example.

I hope that you consider my post useful in your future as teacher :)

Have a good bridge!!

Andrea