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Kennedy Salts

Dr. Montz

ENG310

27 March 2018

Annotative Bibliography

Aravani, Evagelia. “The Role of Teaching Poetry in Developing Literacy in Greek

Primary School: A Case Study.” Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, vol.
37, no. 4, 1 Dec. 2012, pp. 51–58. ERIC,
www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/australian_journal_of_early_childhood/ajec_
index_abstracts/the-role-of-teaching-poetry-in-developing-literacy-in-greek-
primary-school-a-case-study-free-full-text-available.html.

This article goes into detail about how teaching poetry to very young students can

improve their reading, writing, and several other important skills that will come in handy

later on in the student’s life. Although this isn’t specifically geared toward a secondary

classroom, I still feel that it is an important read. Understanding how impactful poetry is

at an early age can help to influence how I teach poetry to students after they’re older. I

also got the idea that if poetry can help young students in these ways, why would it stop

helping students develop later in their lives, and how could it help students who have a

learning disability or have a harder time reading? If it helped young students I feel that it

would be incredibly helpful to older students.

Baker, Emilie Zoey. “How to Get Teenagers Interested in Poetry • Going Down
Swinging.” Going Down Swinging, 1 Mar. 2016,
goingdownswinging.org.au/how-to-get-teenagers-interested/.

This source was one I found when I was searching for limerick examples. The

main point of this webpage was how to get a classroom of teenaged students interested in

poetry and honestly I felt like the author of this had really good ideas. She gave a list of

ways to get a classroom interested and then she elaborated on what she meant by her
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ideas. I really like the idea of having students write an “awful” poem just to get them

started and then working their way to finding poems that they like and then having a slam

poetry day. I feel like this would be helpful for me in the classroom because it gives me

good ideas that I can swipe and employ myself one of these days.

DePasquale, John. “Blackout Poetry.” Scholastic, 15 Apr. 2016,

www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/john-depasquale/blackout-poetry/.

This source gave me good instruction on how to do Blackout Poetry and how to

teach it as a lesson to a classroom. This would be helpful to me due to the fact that I

would actually really like to teach Blackout Poetry as a lesson to teach free verse. I feel

like it would be a fun way for students to play with poetry and to work with “resources”

that they already have on the page they were given.

Hadaway, Nancy L, et al. “Scaffolding Oral Language Development through Poetry for
Students Learning English.” Reading Teacher, vol. 54, no. 8, May 2001, pp. 796–
806., web.a.ebscohost.com.lib-
proxy.usi.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=7&sid=043c566b-5aed-4b75-aa2e-
44d02b83d644%40sessionmgr4006.

Using poetry in class on a daily basis is incredibly helpful for younger students

and extremely beneficial for students learning English as a second language. I found this

article to me useful because it gives evidence proving to me that the use of poetry in the

classroom is beyond beneficial for students, especially those who may be learning

English as a second language. With immigration from Mexico into the United States

increases, I feel that it is more than necessary to have the necessary skills and lessons

lined up to help my ESL students out as much as humanly possible. This article not only

gave me evidence to back this up, but it also provided some strategies that I can use in

my classroom one day.

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Kowit, Steve, and Dorianne Laux. In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable
Workshop. Tilbury House Publishers, 2003.

This book basically gives great tips and insight into teaching and writing poetry. I

found this at the library and I tried to buy it at Barnes and Nobel, but apparently they

didn’t have any in stock, so I’ll have to wait on getting it. Anyway, it’s a great classroom

resource and it would be very beneficial to myself as well as my one-day students. Just

reading through this book gave me a few ideas as well as good tips for when I get to the

classroom.

“Limericks Lesson Plan.” Stuart Mill English, 22 Sept. 2010,

blog.stuartmillenglish.com/2010/09/22/limericks-lesson-plan/.

I found this lesson plan on TeacherPlanet and actually it’s given me good ideas

for teaching limericks (this was found when I was originally going to do limerick for the

teaching demo, but I felt that this would be helpful to me later on down the road, so I’m

hanging on to it). This plan gives good detail on how to go about teaching limericks and

it gives me an idea for getting students involved in writing a limerick all together as a

class. This would be helpful because I feel like it would help eliminate any confusion

associated with writing the poem if students start out learning how to do it together as a

class.

Naylor, Amanda, and Audrey B Wood. Teaching Poetry. Routledge, 2011.

This book is perfect for someone, such as myself, who is new to teaching. It gives

great advise on how to tackle teaching poetry. It offers a lot of research as well, which I

find helpful. I didn’t get a chance to read the entire thing, but skimming through and

reading the major parts that offer ideas and advise was incredibly helpful and in a few

weeks, I’m hoping to go and hunt down some classroom resource books, such as this one.
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Olsen, Lydia. “Everyday Learners: The Benefits of Children Reading Poetry.” Daily
Herald, 1 Oct. 2017,
www.heraldextra.com/news/community/education/everyday-learners-the-
benefits-of-children-reading-poetry/article_486c48b1-b90a-5d5d-82a0-
050796c5592e.html.

This source gives a good amount of research on how and why teaching poetry is

beneficial to children. I found this to be a helpful source to me because it gives me

something to reference if and when parents ask questions about why I am teaching poetry

and when they want to know what the real purpose of poetry lessons are. Parents tend to

appreciate having numbers given to them and if I can send them this article then

hopefully that helps to clear things up with them. I also found this helpful because it

gives me more of a feeling of purpose when I do eventually teach poetry to my students.

Now that I know what kind of an impact it can and will have on students, I will put in an

even greater effort into my poetry lessons.

“Two Poetry Activities Your Students Will Love.” EB Academic Camps, 18 Jan. 2016,
www.pinterest.com/offsite/?token=283-
808&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebcamps.org%2F2016%2F01%2Ftwo-poetry-
activities-your-
students.html&pin=45387908725339633&client_tracking_params=CwABAAAA
DDk3NzIxMTA0MjcwNwA.

Here is a website/blog that had so many lesson plans on it, and one specific post

about teaching poetry. I found this to be so helpful when looking for lesson plan ideas. I

hadn’t even thought of doing either one of these activities, but it looks like it would be so

much more fun than just doing a basic “write your own poem” lesson. This gets students

more involved with the writing process and it makes them work with “resources” that are

available to them to write their own poem. I’m on the fence about whether or not I want

to do a black out poem or just have students write out their own free verse, I may do both

if I have time, which would be exciting.