I am here again to share with you my opinion about the importance of poetry for children. I was thinking in doing this post about an activity we are going to develop next Tuesday with children in my university, but I prefer to write about that next time to explain what we have done and my feeling doing something I want to.
Children’s poetry is poetry
appropriate written for children. It includes:
1.
Folk poetry.
2.
Poetry
written intentionally for young people.
3.
Poetry
written originally for adults.
4.
Poems taken
from prose Works.
I have been reading different
articles about the importance of teaching poetry in Primary Education. I knew
that it was important but I didn’t know many reasons because when I was a child,
my teacher didn’t use to show us poems. I think I have now a clear opinion if
someone asks me “Why is poetry so important for children?”
Children should make poetry a daily habit because if they try it, they will do it for the rest of their lives.
The teacher and parents should give oral readings to children, who will then carry poetry with them into an adulthood. They could use as a key my two best children’s poets on the 19th century: Lewis Carrol and Edward Lear. Poetry is essential for children because it is “the best words in the best order”. The rhythm and rhymes can help children develop a love of reading, and for the language too. Once kids begin flexing their writing muscles, poetry can spark their creativity and let their imagination soar. One of the most important things is the idea of making the reading of a poem as an activity, not as a requirement, thinking on different ways to evolve children reading poems in their free time.
My own suggestion as a project to include poetry in a classroom is that the children’s school organizes a Poetry cafe, where parents and kids are invited to give poetry readings after school. I have thought about that because I think parents who get the reading habit early are bound to pass into their children.
I have chosen a poem from Julia Donaldson that I want to share with you because I think it is an example of a useful poem and the right way to introduce poetry.
Children should make poetry a daily habit because if they try it, they will do it for the rest of their lives.
The teacher and parents should give oral readings to children, who will then carry poetry with them into an adulthood. They could use as a key my two best children’s poets on the 19th century: Lewis Carrol and Edward Lear. Poetry is essential for children because it is “the best words in the best order”. The rhythm and rhymes can help children develop a love of reading, and for the language too. Once kids begin flexing their writing muscles, poetry can spark their creativity and let their imagination soar. One of the most important things is the idea of making the reading of a poem as an activity, not as a requirement, thinking on different ways to evolve children reading poems in their free time.
My own suggestion as a project to include poetry in a classroom is that the children’s school organizes a Poetry cafe, where parents and kids are invited to give poetry readings after school. I have thought about that because I think parents who get the reading habit early are bound to pass into their children.
I have chosen a poem from Julia Donaldson that I want to share with you because I think it is an example of a useful poem and the right way to introduce poetry.
I hope you liked it.
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