Glossary Terms | Poetry Foundation Often used in political speeches and occasionally in prose and poetry, anaphora is the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to create a sonic effect. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, which uses anaphora not only in its oft-quoted “I have a dream” refrain but throughout, as in this passage when he repeats the phrase “go back to”: Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. In Joanna Klink's poem “Some Feel Rain,” the phrase "some feel" is repeated, which creates a rhythm and a sense of an accumulating emotions and meanings: Some feel rain. in its ghost-part when the bark slips. each other in the whiskey dark, scarcely there.
Riddles & Brainteasers Scientists get to solve puzzles every day, because science and research involve finding solutions from the clues that we are given. Just like with brainteasers (or brain teasers) and riddles, the answers to science mysteries are not always easy to see at first. With time and effort, they eventually become clear. But before solving the hundreds of brainteasers and riddles below, why not learn more about your brain by viewing the parts of the brain and what they do. Palindromes A palindrome is a word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. Not So Hard Riddles Warm up with some easy riddles. Tuff Stuff Riddles Some of these riddles are difficult Rebus Puzzles Word picture puzzles Frog Leap Brainteaser Help six little frogs get across their pond. Puzzling Proverbs New twists on old sayings Puzzling Numbers Numbers games Double-Speak Proverbs These old sayings have been rewritten using big words.
Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice This unit introduces poetry forms and craft elements while students explore poetry about everyday topics or themes. back to top Poetic Forms...and Examples: This page from PBS NewsHour offers an extensive list of poetic forms, with examples of each. Poetry Collection Checklist: Have students complete this checklist of their favorite examples of each type of poetry as an assessment for the unit. Further Reading
Poems & Questions for National Poetry Month Skip to main content <div id="nojs-warning">WARNING: Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display</div> Sign InRegister ReadWorks.org The Solution to Reading Comprehension Search form ReadWorks Poems & Questions for National Poetry Month Share now! Print Kindergarten "As I Was Going to St. "Mix a Pancake" By Christina G. 1st Grade "Drinking Fountain" By Marchette Chute "Covers" By Nikki Giovanni 2nd Grade "The Wind" By Robert Louis Stevenson "Afternoon on a Hill" By Edna St. 3rd Grade "Fireflies in the Garden" By Robert Lee Frost "Autumn" By Emily Dickinson "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" By Robert Lee Frost 4th Grade "A Bird Came Down the Walk" By Emily Dickinson "Dust of Snow" By Robert Lee Frost "September" By Helen Hunt Jackson 5th Grade "The New Colossus" By Emma Lazarus "The Echoing Green" By William Blake "Casey at the Bat" By Ernest Lawrence Thayer 6th Grade "City Autumn" By Joseph Moncure March "Wild Goose" By Curtis Heath "The Road Not Taken" By Robert Lee Frost 7th Grade 8th Grade
Riddles for Spring see it clearly Springtime is one of the happiest times of the year, and a great way to celebrate when the birds begin chirping and the snow finally melts away is to tell a few riddles for spring to your friends. Here are a few to get you started (answers appear at the end of the page), as well as some information about why spring is a great season for riddles! Riddles for Spring April showers bring mayflowers, but what do Mayflowers bring? What’s the best day of the year to monkey around with your friends? Why Tell Riddles in the Spring The reason that riddles for spring work so well is that the season is ripe (pardon the pun) for wit and cleverness. Moreover, because the name “spring” is itself open to interpretation, it’s easy to make your own riddles. Telling a Good Spring Riddle A mediocre riddle told very well is much better (and much funnier) than an extremely good riddle told poorly. Pilgrims!
Children's Poetry in The Poetry Zone Classroom Resources If you have any resources, teaching materials, poetry books or teaching books to recommend, or any ideas you'd like to share with our visitors - as well as suggestions for ways to improve this resource - please send them to me.You, and your school, will be credited. All worksheets etc are photocopiable but, to protect the copyright, should only be used in your school. Authors hold individual copyrights. Contents Poetry Worksheets (Rather than printing these straight from the website, you will need to copy them - Save As or Cut and Paste - to your word-processing program where it should be easy for you to turn them into useable worksheets.) Wordsworth Poems (Literacy, Year 6) (From Caroline Davey) Jabberwocky (From Miranda Smith) Character Poems by James Carter Improvising Free Verse To Music by James Carter Tips for young writers by James Carter Poetry Kit by Jan Dean Lots of great ideas! Using Similes and Metaphors to Create Strange Images by Duncan Jones Performance
What makes a poem … a poem? - Melissa Kovacs The first poems were read aloud. Their regular patterns aided memorization of genealogy, oral history, and law. The performance aspect of poetry has never disappeared; Robert Frost toured the country and earned a living mainly through poetry readings. In 2012, there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, National Poetry Month. The poetic tradition can relate to orators, who craft messages to be delivered aloud to an audience. Today, performance poetry has become a genre unto itself, most notably, in the rise of slam poetry in the 1980’s. The lesson begins with a poem delivered by Muhammad Ali. Free verse poetry defied many of the conventions of traditional poetry when a movement began to “free” poetry from strict form standards and instead mimic the patterns and rhythms of everyday speech.
Celebrating World Poetry Day - TechNotes Blog - TCEA While I don’t consider myself a true poet, when I see that World Poetry Day is March 21, I feel the nostalgia of favorite poems from my past; to recite them, read them slowly and feel the emotions evoked, to enjoy the words on my tongue as a tasty morsel. Though my favorites are not ones that you study if you are an English major in college, they touched emotions in me. And isn’t that what we want to happen with our students in whatever content we teach – that they have an emotional connection to it? Poems on my list include Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, Sara Cynthia Sylvia Stout by Shel Silverstein, and The Rose Still Grows Beyond the Wall by L. Frink. This year for World Poetry Day, regardless of what you teach, here are a few tools that you and your students can use to articulate your content in ways that tickle the ear and spark the imagination. iOS and Android Apps Diamante Poem – This type of poem is in the shape of a diamond. Poetry Websites Related
I, Too, Sing America Patriotism's a pretty complicated concept. It can mean standing up for your country or criticizing it. If you want to sum up patriotism, you can simply call it "love for one's country." But how does one love a country? Langston Hughes certainly doesn't think so. Hughes was often considered the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes published "I, Too, Sing America" in 1945, a good ten years or so before the start of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. We started this party talking about patriotism. Patriotism's all about loving your country and being proud to be its citizen, right? In Langston Hughes's case, he knows that by birth he's an American citizen. So Hughes pens this poem, in which he envisions a greater America, a more inclusive America. Freedom and equality.
24 Must-Share Poems for Middle School and High School It can be hard to know which poems will spur your middle and high schoolers into deep, meaningful discussion and which will leave them yawning! So we asked experienced teachers to share their favorite poems that always get a reaction, even from teens. Here’s what they had to say about the best poems for middle school and high school students. 1. Discuss symbolism with this short poem by Frost. 2. Discuss the literal and figurative meanings in this poem. 3. Listen to the author herself as she performs her poetry. 4. This poem follows Joe’s pain and suffering she experienced at Schubenacadie Residential School in Nova Scotia. 5. This poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration had the nation talking about it for days to come. 6. Recount the dangers of misconception with this poem. 7. Frost doesn’t hold back with this poem, an ideal one for discussion and debate. 8. Ea documented this to raise awareness about the alarming rates of deforestation and the reckless destruction of our environment. 9.
PoemHunter.com: Poems - Quotes - Poetry BlackOutPoetry During the last lessons this semester, we are going to be creative! Have you heard about Black Out Poetry before? What is Black Out Poetry? Blackout poetry focuses on rearranging words to create a different meaning. Also known as newspaper blackout poetry, the author uses a permanent marker to cross out or eliminate whatever words or images he sees as unnecessary or irrelevant to the effect he's seeking to create. Watch the video below on how to create Blackout Poetry: 1. 2. * Skim through the text and look for an anchor word. (Nowsparkcreativity.com, 2019) 3. 4.. * What do you think he/she wants to say with his/her poem? "Why worry about appearances the heart always wondered" (Li Throbäcks elever, 2017) Good Luck! / Sara