What are your feelings about reading poetry? How about having to teach it?
Has anyone of you given any thought yet to your introduction to the Poetry Folder that you might want to share here?
Any responses to today's reading, Chapter 8, on poetry?
This is a comment by Sheri Bearden: I didn't really like poetry when I was going to school when I was younger. I had a learning disiability and I had a hard time reading books. And when my teacher introduced poetry to us it was not the light hearted fun poems. They were long hard boring ones which made it even more difficult to me.
ReplyDeleteWhen I become a teacher I want to teach preschool or kindergarden age children. I want to start with very small poems and work up to the longer poems. I want to make it fun and let them use their imagination and make the poem make sense for them. I didn't have that chance to really explore and to dig into poetry. I want the children in my classroom to get that chance. And for that child who has a hard time with reading, I will help that child we will learn together. I want to make this fun and also be a teaching tool as well.
I don't remember reading a whole lot of poetry in elementary school so I don't have good or bad memories about it. After reading through chapter 8 and talking about poetry in class I am excited to teach it. There are so many fun and silly poems that children can relate to and have fun with that I think poetry will be a fun activity for the kids. I want to teach Kindergarten so there are endless possibilities for what I can do to teach children about poetry at such a young eager age.
ReplyDeleteI have always loved poetry and I can't wait to be able to pass my love of poetry onto the kids I teach. I want to be a first grade teacher, and I know that if I can get kids excited about poetry at an early age it might keep them from getting to the point where they never like poetry. If nothing else, my goal is to get them to remember that one poem they read when they were little that they really loved.
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