POETRY  NOOK

                One day when Pooh was walking towards this bridge, he was trying to make up a piece of poetry about fircones, because they were lying about on each side of him, and he felt singy.

                                            A House at Pooh Corner,  A. A. Milne

     Children love to sing, chant, and make rhymes.  Today, however, many do not come to school with phonemic awareness.  Using oral language is important in literacy development for emergent readers as well as those children learning English as a second language.  Poems, songs, rhymes and chants have a linguistic pattern that enables learners to acquire strong linguistic structures.  As Pooh found poetry from the things around him, children can be motivated to play with the language in their world.  Through these oral language patterns, teachers can develop a sense of joy in language use.  

              The poems in this section are divided into categories.  Look at the list and find the topic.  The themes that are underlined  are developed or are in the developmental stages.  Other poems will be added to each thematic topic so check back with my pages soon.

                           More coming soon.. check back for more poems

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