6(A) forms of poetry...

Reading/ Comprehension of Literary Text/ Poetry Students understand,  make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understandings.
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7(A) respond to rhythm and rhyme in poetry through identifying a regular beat and similarities in word sounds.	8(A) respond to and use rhythm, rhyme and alliteration in poetry	7(A) describe how rhyme, rhythm and repetition interact to create images in poetry	6(A) describe the characteristics of various forms of poetry and how they create imagery (e.g. narrative poetry, lyrical poetry, humorous poetry, free verse)	4(A) explain how the structural elements of poetry (e.g. rhyme, meter, stanza, line breaks) relate to form	4(A) analyze how poets use sound effects (e.g. alliteration, internal rhyme, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme) to reinforce meaning in poems.
describe the characteristics of various forms of poetry and how they create imagery (e.g. narrative poetry, lyrical poetry, humorous poetry, free verse)

 Third and fourth grade students are responsible for the following forms:

• Narrative - Narrative Poems are poems that tell stories. There is a beginning, which introduces the background to the story, a middle, which tells the action of the event, and an end, which concludes and summarizes the story.
• Lyric- Lyric Poems, such as a sonnet or an ode, express the thoughts and feelings of the poet
• Humorous -Poetry full of wit and wisdom that will tickle your funny bone and bring a smile to your face
• Free Verse - Free Verse Poems do not have a set pattern of rhythym or rhyme.The poet tries to keep words that go together on the same line, but, sometimes the poet may break the words if he wants to create a visual shape.

Structural Elements of Poetry, based on 4th grade TEK's:

• rhyme - The basic definition of rhyme is two words that sound alike. The vowel sound of two words is the same, but the initial consonant sound is different. Rhyme is perhaps the most recognizable convention of poetry, but its function is often overlooked. Rhyme helps to unify a poem; it also repeats a sound that links one concept to another, thus helping to determine the structure of a poem
• meter - Meter is the rhythm established by a poem, and it is usually dependent not only on the number of syllables in a line but also on the way those syllables are accented. This rhythm is often described as a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• stanza -
  Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme. Stanzas aren't necessary in a poem, but they are pretty important if you're writing a long poem. If you're writing a ten-thousand-lined poems without a break, the audience will get tired just by looking at it. By having a break and dividing the poem into sections, the audience will be more attracted to the poem. Also, each stanza has each new idea so it'll be easier to jump into a new idea if there's a division in between. It's just simply nice to have a break in something which is super long.
• line breaks -
  

  There are an infinite number of ways in which to determine where to break a line when writing a poem. Basically, there are no hard and fast rules. Different poets choose to break their lines in different places depending on the feeling they are seeking to convey. Where a line breaks in a poem determines the pace and tension of the poem.

  
  

Poetry Notebooks
Ways for young students to interact with the poem:
1. highlight new vocabulary words
2. mark words with common spelling rules
3. highlight punctuation that is being studied
4. color code rhyming words
5. order the lines in the poem by arranging pieces of the poem
6. Begin to introduce the most basic poetic terms without over analyzing the poems you read. For example, in the poetry notebook, a child can highlight similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, and consonance.
7. and of course, for fluency's sake, students can read and reread, perform for groups of 2 or an entire class, share it with family and more.....