{"id":273,"date":"2011-03-21T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T10:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/?p=273"},"modified":"2011-03-21T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T11:34:32","slug":"poetry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/2011\/03\/21\/poetry-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today, March 21st, is World Poetry Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">So here are some ideas related to poetry that you can use in the classroom:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211; Pick a poem that you liked as a child and read it to your students. Discuss the meaning of words and see how words rhyme even though they are spelled differently (rhyme\/mime, rain\/Jane&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211; Write a poem with the students! Give them a random word, easy to rhyme, like &#8220;air&#8221;,\u00a0 and help them find rhyming words: bear, care, chair, compare, there, square&#8230; Then, in small groups, help them make up a poem using these words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211; Shape poetry! Pick an object, for example a tree, and ask your students for words that can describe it: green, tall, leafy, strong, small, colorful, old&#8230;\u00a0 Using these words, write a short poem along with the students, and have them write it in the shape of the tree. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/fNSE8Z\" target=\"new\">Click here<\/a> to see an example (extracted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worsleyschool.net\/socialarts\/shape\/shapeentries.html\" target=\"_blank\">this site<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/files\/2011\/03\/lazy_jane.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-272\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/files\/2011\/03\/lazy_jane-188x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/files\/2011\/03\/lazy_jane-188x300.gif 188w, http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/files\/2011\/03\/lazy_jane-94x150.gif 94w, http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/files\/2011\/03\/lazy_jane.gif 365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a>(Click on image to see it bigger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today, March 21st, is World Poetry Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">So here are some ideas related to poetry that you can use in the classroom:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211; Pick a poem that you liked as a child and read it to your students. Discuss the meaning of words and see how words rhyme even though they are spelled differently (rhyme\/mime, rain\/Jane&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211; Write a poem with the students! Give them a random word, easy to rhyme, like &#8220;air&#8221;, and help them find rhyming words: bear, care, chair, compare, there, square&#8230; Then, in small groups, help them make up a poem using these words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211; Shape poetry! Pick an object, for example a tree, and ask your students for words that can describe it: green, tall, leafy, strong, small, colorful, old&#8230; Using these words, write a short poem along with the students, and have them write it in the shape of the tree. Click here to see an example (extracted from this site)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-272\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/files\/2011\/03\/lazy_jane-188x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/files\/2011\/03\/lazy_jane-188x300.gif 188w, http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/files\/2011\/03\/lazy_jane-94x150.gif 94w, http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/files\/2011\/03\/lazy_jane.gif 365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/>(Click on image to see it bigger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}