POETRY
[Letting Your Voice Be Heard]
Poetry is an oral tradition...
Children can benefit from reciting poetry. It helps build fluency and prosody in fun and lyrical ways that spurs creativity and imagination.
Spokane's Poet Laureate: 'Children are natural poets'
Thom Caraway explains how poetry comes naturally for children, and this innate creativity should be fostered throughout children's educational careers.
SpokenPublicSchools. (2014, March 17). Spokane's poet laureate: 'Children are natural poets.' Video retrieved from www.youtube.com
Children Slam Poetry
Poetry Reader's Theater
Children show that their poetry can have rhythm, meaning, and voice through the tradition of poetry slam. Jackson is not the only one! More Children Slam Poetry can be seen here.
LEAF Community Arts. (2013, October 30). 4 poem #1 jackson kids poetry slam fall LEAF 2013. Video retrieved from www.youtube.com
Poetry can be integrated into Reader's Theater in ways that only enhance students' fluency and prosody. These students apply kinesthetic movements to the Shel Silverstien poem "Sick" in order to help the preformers remember and recite their lines.
krissi21p (2011, April 8). Readers theatre 2011-sick by Shel Silverstein. Video retrieved from www.youtube.com