Children Writing Poems: Poetic Voices in and out of School [Paperback]

This volume demonstrates how the social and instructional worlds that children inhabit influence their poetry writing and performances. Drawing on rich vignettes of students from different racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, it describes and analyzes the work of eight to ten-year-old U.S. students involved in a month-long poetry unit. Children Writing Poems outlines the value of a poetic-functional approach to help children convey a poems meaning and mood, and expresses the need for educators to scaffold childrens oral readings and performances over time.

1. Introduction: Eat it All Elaine and Poetry Matters 2. Poetrys Verbal Art and Poetry Writing as a Social Practice 3. Making the Familiar Strange: Interpretive-Poetic Research 4. Poems, Poets, Practices: Learning through Engagement, Exploration, Mentoring and Collaboration 5. Playing with Language: Poetic Features, Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality in Childrens Poems 6. Delighting in the Ride: Poetic Structure, Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality in Childrens Poems 7. Poet on Deck! Children Grow as Poets through Performance 8. Reconsidering and Supporting Childrens Poetic Voices

 

Children Writing Poems outlines the value of a poetic-functional approach to help children convey a poems meaning and mood, and expresses the need for educators to scaffold childrens oral readings and performances over time.

Janine L. Certo is Associate Professor of Language and Literacy at Michigan State University, USA.

Researcher Janine Certo investigates the many instructional and social influences that shape the poetry writing and performance of elementary school students. Bringing to bear the newest methodologies, Certo analyzes and offers new ideas for how to most productively teach poetry to younger studenl£#