Chapter 9

Children's Poetry Preferences

• Narrative poetry or limericks wer popular with all ages, while free verse and haiku were the most disliked forms.
• students prefer poems containing rhyme or rhythm and sound.
• Children most enjoyed poetry with humor, familiar experiences, and animals.

appreciation for Poetry

• Poetry is learning and experimenting together.
• Poetry is laughter
• Poetry is music
• Poetry can be unified performance
• Poetry is stories
• Poetry is seen as well as heard
• Poetry is shared experience and appreciation

Evaluation criteria for childrens poetry

• A fresh or original view of the subject is presented.
• Insight or emotion is shown or felt
• Poetic devices are used effectively
• Lanuage is used effectively
• The voice or persona of the poem appears to be sincere.

Building a poetry collection

• Anthologies
• Collections
• Single-Poem picture books
• Verse Novels

Poetry reading list

• "Who shrank my grandmas house" by Barbara Esbensen.
• "That Sweet Diamond" by Paul Janeczko
• "One Today" by Richard Blanco
• "Black is Brown is Tan" Arnold Adoff
• "More Surprises" by Lee Bennet Hopkins