Exploring Poetry for Children with Embedded Strategy Instruction

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Exploring Poetry for Children with Embedded
Strategy Instruction

• EDC425

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Objectives

• Review questions from readings
• Appreciate the use of poetry in the elementary
  classroom
• Become familiar with elements of poetry, poets,
  online resources
• Learn and practice how to embed strategy
  instruction into poetry readings using a
  metacognitive framework
• Participate in a Poetry Workshop (Book Activity
  1) publish your poem on a wiki

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To begin

• What questions do you have from your readings?
• Our class website/wikispace edc425uri.wikispaces.
  com

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The Wonder of Poetry

• Poems can welcome children (old and young) into
  your classroom without overwhelming those who
  struggle with reading
• Poems can communicate implicit messages about
  your classroom culture
• Poems can boost self-esteem and provide space to
  laugh about our differences

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Popular Poets for Children

• Shel Silverstein. Where the Sidewalk Ends A
  Light in the Attic.
• Jack Prelutsky. Poems for Laughing Out Loud A
  Pizza the Size of the Sun.
• Judith Viorst. If I Were In Charge of the World.
• Arnold Lobel. Random House Book of Poetry
  (illustrated) Whiskers Rhymes.
• Kalli Dakos. If Youre Not Hear, Please Raise
  Your Hand.

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Online Poetry Resources

• Giggle Poetry http//www.gigglepoetry.com/
• The Childrens Poetry Archivehttp//www.poetryarc
  hive.org/childrensarchive/home.do
• The Childrens Poetry Bookshelf Word Scramble
  http//www.childrenspoetrybookshelf.co.uk/flashga
  mes/words.html
• Online Magnetic Poetry http//www.magneticpoetry.c
  om/kidspoetry/playonline.cfm
• Shocked Poetryhttp//www.shockedpoetry.com/index.
  html

Homework Extra Credit http//edc425uri.wikispaces
.com/
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Poems do more than rhyme!(Hancock Chapter 5)

• Elements of poems
• Rhythm
• Rhyme
• Imagery
• Figurative language
• Shape and Spacing

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Forms of Poetry(Hancock Chapter 5)

• Narrative - they tell a story
• Lyrical- captures songlike qualities of language
  or objects
• Limericks - 5 line nonsense verse with certain
  rhyming sequence
• Free Verse - no pattern
• Haiku - 17 syllables 5/7/5
• Concrete (e.g., acrostic, shape poems)

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Key Reading Strategies
PREDICT
MAKE CONNECTIONS
MONITOR AND CLARIFY
SUMMARIZE
VISUALIZE
QUESTION
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Metacognitive Teaching Framework

• 1 Think Aloud
• Introduce, Explain, and Define Strategy
  Components
• Notice and apply strategy components
• Clarify strategy purpose
• 2 Refine (small and whole group practice)
• 3 Let Strategy Use Gel (apply in literature
  circles and content area studies)
• 4 Self-assessment/goal setting
• Reflect, monitor, and increase use of strategies

Kelly Clausen-Grace, 2007
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Think back to your Quick Write

• Did you find it difficult to think aloud in front
  of someone else? Why or why not?
• Did thinking aloud help increase your own
  understanding of the text? Why/how or why not?
• Would it help to have a think-aloud plan when
  modeling strategy use for students?

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What might a think-aloud plan look like?

• See your handouts for an example of thinking
  aloud about Monitoring and Clarifying.
• See each chapter of the Kelly Clausen-Grace
  book for other examples.
• Be thinkingyou will be asked to create a few of
  these scripts for your book activities and to
  share/try out your scripts in class.

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Think-Aloud Monitor and Clarify (Embedded with
Poetry)

• Introduce, Explain, and Define
• See handout 1 for a model/script
• Notice and Apply - Who Hath A Book
• See handout 2 for a model/script
• Your turn to Notice and Apply as you read T.S.
  Eliots Macavity The Mystery Cat

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Drafting a Think-Aloud Plan

1. Read through the poem and underline places to
   monitor and clarify.
2. Draft a think-aloud of your fix-up strategies and
   label it THINK 1 (T1) in notes on poem.
3. Draft a student response where they noticed
   what you did. Label it Student 1 (S1) in notes
   on poem.
4. Continue this process with T2/S2 T3/S3 etc.
5. Be prepared to share with your partner.

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To summarizeWhy is it effective to blend reader
response to literature and cognitive strategy
instruction to teach your students how to
comprehend what they read?
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Benefits of Reader Response View of Literature
Teaching

• Experience reading success
• Meet diverse needs
• Become risk takers
• Assume responsibility for learning
• Make personal connections
• Encourage higher-level thinking
• Understand reading as a process
• Appreciate literary quality

Hancock, 2008
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Benefits of Using the Metacognitive Teaching
Framework

• It promotes discussion.
• It provides a common language.
• It makes strategy use explicit.
• It provides a routine to help students connect
  the range of reading strategies.
• It is not text-dependent.
• It helps ALL readers comprehend better.
• It develops a bonded community of literacy
  learners.

Kelly Clausen-Grace, 2007
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Homework

• Genre Chapter 5 Poetry
• Genre Chapter 11 Literature as a Model for
  Writing
• Extra Credit Explore one of the poetry websites
  and post a comment on the wikispace - its EASY!!
  -)