Values of Poetry for Children

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Values of Poetry for Children

• Pure enjoyment
• knowledge of world
• appropriate language and expand vocabulary
• identify with people and situations

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• Familiar moods and feelings
• Insights into themselves and others
• Sensitivity to universal needs and feelings

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NCTE Outstanding Poets

• 1977 David McCord
• 1978 Aileen Fisher
• 1979 Karla Kuskin
• 1980 Myra Cohn Livingston
• 1981 Eve Merriam
• 1982 John Ciardi
• 1985 Lillian Moore

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• 1988 Arnold Adoff
• 1991 Valerie Worth
• 1994 Barbara Esbensen
• 1997 Eloise Greenfield
• 2000

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Newbery Winners

• 1982 Nancy Willards A Visit to William Blakes
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• 1989 Sid Fleismans A Joyful Noise

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New York Times Best Seller List

• 1981 Shel Silversteins A Light in the Attic
  Best Seller List 182 weeks
• 1982 T.S. Elliots Old Possums Book of
  Practical Cats CATS -- musical
• 3 million copies sold Where the Sidewalks Ends

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Poems Children Prefer

• Contemporary poems
• Poems about familiar enjoyable experiences
• Story poems
• Humor
• Poems with rhythm rhyme

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Criteria for Selecting Poetry

• Exciting meters rhythms
• Sound word play
• Strong imagery
• Simple stories, lots of action

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• Not condescending
• Children required to interpret and extend
• Delightful, happy, funny
• Good enough to be read repeatedly

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Elements of Poetry

• Rhythm
• Rhyme and other Sound Patterns
• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia

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• Repetition
• Imagery
• metaphors
• similes
• personification
• hyperbole
• Shape

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Forms of Poetry

• Lyric
• Narrative
• Ballads
• Limericks
• Concrete Poems
• Haiku

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Poems and Poets

• Nursery Rhymes
• Nature Poems
• Characters, Situations, and Locations
• Moods and Feelings
• Animals
• Witches and Ghosts

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• Edward Lear
• Lewis Carroll
• Laura E. Richards
• Shel Silverstein
• Jack Prelutsky
• William Jay Smith
• John Ciardi

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• Robert Frost
• Aileen Fisher
• Byrd Baylor
• Paul Fleischman
• Myra Cohn Livingston
• Valerie Worth
• David McCord

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• Langston Hughes
• Cynthia Rylant