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This can be used for educators who want to integrate cell phones into the curriculum either at school or away from school. Subject:Literacy Tool:Voki's Lesson Title: Bring Poetry to Life with A Cell Phone and A Voki Lesson Overview:Students use Vokis to bring their poetry to life and hear themselves reading their pieces. Voki is a terrific tool to use toward the end of a poetry unit when students are ready to publish their work.
Teachers should select a mentor poem to model Voki creation and then have all students create Vokis with the mentor poem. Students will then be ready to create a Voki with their own poems. -->Character Style Select a character from one of our many styles: Classic, Animals, Oddballs and more! Next students will have Voki call their cell so they can record their poem. NETS Standards:1. Outta Ray's Head Poetry Lessons. I started out to do a lesson on poetry and before I knew it the whole thing was getting out of hand and I ended up with a page with links.
I just like poetry too much and over the years I have developed more than a dozen integrated units that revolve around themes and/or styles. I have a firm belief that poetry has got to be taught within an easily understood frame such as "imagist' poetry or "love" poetry or "humanist" poetry or "modern problems"; you just can't throw a bunch of poems together and hope to get to the test with as little hassle as possible.There is one overwhelming argument in favour of teaching poetry and that is that it is a form of communication and part of an English teacher's job is to teach communication skills. You might also impress upon your students the following bit of thinking: Now you see the problem: listened to, thought about, derided or praised, most written, but little understood, and too often taught under duress, for both the teacher and student.
Web English Teacher. Reading Poetry Without Bias Lesson Plan: Using Music Lyrics to Teach Poetry. Set up the Lesson Begin the lesson by telling students you are going to play them a song; distribute a copy of the lyrics to each student.
As they listen to the song and read the lyrics, they should write down their impressions of the speaker, audience, and central purpose or message of the poem. Let me explain a little bit about those three things before moving on: 1. Speaker: this is the narrator of the poem. 2. 3. Play the song for the students and ask them to write down their notes as they listen.