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How do you create interest in a poem?
Make It Fun
- Make It Fun.
- Fridge Poetry. You’ve seen these before, right?
- Illustrate a Poem. Find a poem your child loves, give her art supplies, and see what the poem inspires her to create.
- Found Poetry. Use old magazines or anything with written words, to “find” interesting words and phrases.
- Riddles.
- Music.
How do I get a career in poetry?
Many poets will attempt to start their careers by sending their poems to poetry competitions, literary magazines, and poetry publishers. After being published, they may then start to gain popularity and possibly even a following. Extremely talented poets might even have their own poetry books published.
What makes poetry more interesting?
Strong, accurate, interesting words, well-placed, make the reader feel the writer’s emotion and intentions. Choosing the right words—for their meaning, their connotations, their sounds, even the look of them, makes a poem memorable. The words become guides to the feelings that lie between the lines.
How do you get students interested in poetry?
These approaches have worked in my classroom in terms of engaging students with reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry and related skills.
- Entice them with music.
- Write poems that are fun and nonthreatening.
- Focus on reading comprehension.
- Use picture books.
- Use poetry to teach a writing skill.
- Play games.
How do you think poetry can be enjoyed by children?
Poetry encourages kids to play with language and words. When reading poetry, they hear how words can be moved and stretched to rhyme, and when they write poetry, they’re doing the same! 4. Poetry helps emerging readers.
What are the basics of poetry?
Poetry is a type of literature that conveys a thought, describes a scene or tells a story in a concentrated, lyrical arrangement of words. Poems can be structured, with rhyming lines and meter, the rhythm and emphasis of a line based on syllabic beats. Poems can also be freeform, which follows no formal structure.