Introduction to Poetry Children's Workshop

Code CW002

Download ebook - This workshop covers the easiest patterns of poetry including free verse, concrete poetry, rhyming poetry, limerick and acrostic poetry.  It includes a project using an orange tree to teach poetry as a sensory experience.

Teaching children to write poetry allows them to examine all their senses; their creativity; imagination; their emotions, their love for life, and freedom of expression. It allows them to observe, have opinions, gain rhyme and rhythm, and write in a form that is acceptable for any topic. In poetry you can often get away with expressing harsh views on controversial topics or deep feelings about what matters to you. It can be an expression of laughter and fun. Poetry can be light and frivolous or deep and descriptive.