Nursery Rhymes

1. Acrostic Diamante Couplets Poetry Haiku Clerihew Concrete Nursery Rhymes Limericks Cinquain Free Verse

2. Poetry is multi-dimensional • It is • Intellectual • Sensual [appeals to the senses] • Emotional • Imaginative

3. Poetry’s distinctive elements • Rhythm – flows like a melody and has movement • Melody – sweet or agreeable succession or arrangement of sounds • Imagery – mental picture of something not actually present • Form – shape; a poem of a tree written in the shape of a tree

4. Poetry in the Classroom… • Nursery Rhymes – stories, riddles, lullabies • Folksongs – poems set to music • Ballads – stories set to music • Couplet – a pair of rhyming lines • Haiku – Japanese form of writing poetry • Free Verse – lacks rhyme and pattern • Cinquains – gradually increasing syllables in each line. Last line has two syllables • Limericks – Lines 1, 2 and 4 rhyme. 3 and 5 rhyme

5. More types of poetry happy • Poems set to music – folk songs, such as Skip to My Lou • Free verse – lacks rhyme and has less predictable rhythm • List poems – a list of your favorite excuses/complaints, animals, etc. • Concrete poetry – words and phrases arranged on paper to capture and extend the meaning; written in the shape of the subject • Diamante – poem in the shape of a diamond; seven lines • Clerihew – funny poems about specific people [teachers, parents]; four lines long • Acrostic – a word written vertically; write a descriptive phrase using the first letter of each line.

6. Folk songs and ballads • Narrative poetry [tells a story] set to music • Tom Dooley Hang down your head Tom Dooley, Hang down your head and cry Hang down your head Tom Dooley, Poor boy you're bound to die.

7. Couplets • A pair of lines that are usually rhymed "If the phone rings, hope then still clings.“ A child drifted off to sleep After she counted sheep.

8. Haiku • A poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. • Many themes include nature, feelings, or experiences. • The most common form for Haiku is three short lines. • A Haiku must "paint" a mental image in the reader's mind.   A Rainbow Donna Brock Curving up, then down. Meeting blue sky and green earth Melding sun and rain.

9. Free verse • Lacks rhyme and has less predictable rhythm FIRST HORSEBACK RIDE I never rode a horse before, until that sweltering August day riding through the New England woods the horse was swatting flies with her tail and I was helping trying hard to swat flies with my hand. That was when I discovered how reins are not like steering wheels, for no matter which way I turned or pulled she would only go to the barn. Nesbitt

10. Cinquain • Five lines gradually increasing number of syllables in each line until the last line returns to two syllables. trianglespointy edgesrevolving, rotating, anglingTriangles are all different.180°

11. Limerick • Some people say that the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's. • A limerick must be funny! • A limerick must tell a story. • A limerick must have 5 lines. • A limerick must have a rhyme scheme of aa bb a.  • A limerick has a specific rhythm. • Limericks are meant to be funny. They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices. • The last line of a good limerick contains the PUNCH LINE or "heart of the joke."

12. Limerick Imagine a skunk who proposes, To his true love, surrounded by roses. It may turn out just fine, When she falls for his line, But I wonder if flowers have noses?

13. List poems • A good list poem creates a rhythm in both structure and content and then breaks that rhythmic pattern with an item that is surprising. MY CAR My car is my office,with laptop and printer and files and cell phone and paper clips scattered on the floor.

14. Concrete poetry A concrete poem is one that takes the shape of the object it describes.

15. Diamante • A diamante is arranged in a diamond pattern with 7 lines that describes a specific subject, and then the opposite of that same subject. Dreamswonderful, happyenjoying, amazing, fascinatingrainbows, flowers, dragons, monstersterrifying, horrifying, shockingscary, horriblenightmares

16. Clerihew • Clerihews are funny poems you write about specific people. They are four lines long. • The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other. Our art teacher, Mr. Shaw, Really knows how to draw.But his awful paintings Have caused many faintings.

17. Acrostics • A poem in which special letters spell another word. Panthers growl,Orioles sing, Eagles soar, Monkeys swing. See?  Devoted,  On  Guard.  back-end hello--  wagging.

18. Links for Teachers http://www.poetry4kids.com/categories http://www.poetry4kids.com/index.php http://www.poetry4kids.com/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&cid=1 http://www.poetry4kids.com/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&cid=2 http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poeform.htm http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/poetry/ http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/ http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poetry.html http://www.kinderplanet.com/music.htm http://www.barkingspiderspoetry.com/ http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/asiasite/topics/index.html?topic=Haiku+subtopic=Intro+mediatype=Video http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/teacher.htm

19. Links for Teachers • http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/4713/tomdooley.html