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For young children:
Teacher read aloud the poem and ask children to find rhymes words. Teacher encourage children to share their feeling when they read the poem.

For students:
To extend students interest in poetry, teacher let one student to choose a word that they now. Then other students will try to find any words that rhymes to the first words.

In a higher level, one student or teacher can create a first simple sentence and other students will continue to create a piece of poem together.

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"Poetry is literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm."  - Oxford Dictionary

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost

"Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity." - William Wordsworth

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Rhymes and patterns are very obvious and exciting to children. Children love the sounds of poetry, even if they don't understand all the words or the meanings of the poems.

What benefits does poetry offer?

- Poetry celebrates the individual word, the sound and the rhythm of language, which can stimulate the reader's imagination, feelings, and intelligence (McDonald, 2018). For older children, poetry is a great vehicle for learning how complex thoughts, humorous ideas, deep emotions, or entire narratives can be expressed with a few carefully chosen words.
- Poetry builds the foundation for learning to read and improve vocabulary.

What kinds of poetry are best for young students?

- For the very young ages, playful, rhyming poetry about topics that are familiar will be more interesting to children.
- Kindergarteners and first graders really enjoy humorous poems about topics they can relate to. In this age, children should be exposed to plenty of rhyming poetry to help them build phonemic awareness that will help them as they begin to read.
- From second graders and older, students are able to learn more about the forms of poetry and introduce more kind poems that inspire children to write their own poetry as well as share longer narrative poems that tell an entire story.

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Forms of Poetry include ballads, haiku, sonnets, odes, epics, cinquains, and limericks. Each form approaches poetry in a different and interesting way. Therefore, it is important to include different forms in poetry to children.

Poetry ingredient: Imagination
Emotion
Complexity

Types of Poetry
- Rhyming poems: The ones can often recall or predict, as the rhyme becomes a mnemonic for the next set of words.

- Non-rhyming poems or free verse poems: the ones that do not follow the rules, and have no rhyme or rhythm; but they are still an artistic expression. Imagination, emotion, and complexity are present in the patterned sound and layout of the poems.

- Verse novels - Poetry and narrative: Stories in the form of poetry, with all the attribute of both. Their narrative structure is composed in a series of short chapters or sections. The emotion is the most important part in verse novels. Often the story is told from a first person perspective and there may be different narrators.

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Teaching children poetry links to:

EYLF Outcome 5.2 : Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts.

Australian Curriculum - English:
Student learn to appreciate, enjoy and use English language in all its variations and develop a sense of its richness and power to evoke feelings, convey information, form ideas, facilitate interaction with others, entertain, persuade and argue.

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This is a bind up of the 4 Possum Creek titles that follow the great poems and rhymes in Australian history. These titles follow the adventures of a group of Australian animals going through the disasters and the adventures in the Australian bush. (KD Book Publishing)

The book is illustrated by Yvonne Perrin.

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Example poem

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Author: C.J Dennis

This is a rhyming poem that describes the busy main street through the view of a little boy. The pattern of rhymes (or rhyme scheme) in "Our Street" is very simple: the second line rhymes with the last line in the stanza.

Imagination, emotion and complexity are all included in this poem.

The poet's imagination is apparent in the daytime through descriptive language and action words such as running, going up and down, selling, buying... This allows readers to visualise the things that are happening in the area, the sound, sight, as well as follow the boy's journey.

We can recognise the emotion of joy and interests of the boy to the daily routines and people appeared on the street. It also includes the boy's thinking and feeling about people (funny man, nice man, I like the cobber best). "Vocabulary is the source of the emotions the poem projects"(McDonald, 2018).

The complexity is evident in how the poem visually appears as a series of rhyming couplets: town-down, hay-away, Dick-sick, too-you, best-rest, nails-tales. The complexity also appears in the first stanza, as in the vocabulary of "folk" - some young children may not know this word means people in general.

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How to introduce poetry in the classroom

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How to introduce poetry in the classroom

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Poem should be read aloud in class. Teacher need to look up unfamiliar words and hard-to-pronounce words and practice reading poem before read it for children.

In addition to exposing students to the sounds of contemporary poetry, teacher can read the poem slowly to ensure that the poem will be read clearly and understood. Setting a pace when reading poem such as to pause for a few seconds between the stanzas is also a good way. Teacher should read in a normal, relaxed tone of voice and follow the punctuation of the poem.

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Aussie Educator website - Poetry: This website introduce a number of poets that suitable for children and young student.
http://www.aussieeducator.org.au/curriculum/language/poetry.html
- "Story It" website: Collection of classical poems for children written by a variety of poets such as Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Edward Lear.
http://storyit.com/Classics/JustPoems/