TEACHING POETRY AND
DRAMATIC POETRY
▪ READING ALOUD
► Reading aloud is the foundation for literacy
development. It is the single most important activity
for reading success.
► It provides children with a demonstration of
phrased, fluent reading. It reveals the rewards of
reading, and develops the listener's interest in
books and desire to be a reader.
▪ READING ALOUD
► Listening to others read develops key understanding
and skills, such as an appreciation for how a story is
written and familiarity with book conventions, such as
"once upon a time" and "happily ever after".
► Reading aloud demonstrates the relationship between
the printed word and meaning – children understand
that print tells a story or conveys information – and
invites the listener into a conversation with the author.
▪ READING ALOUD
► Reading aloud creates a classroom community by
establishing a known text that can be used as the
basis for building on critical thinking skills that are
related and unrelated to reading.
► Discussions generated by reading aloud can be
used to encourage listeners to construct meanings,
connect ideas and experiences across texts, use
their prior knowledge, and question unfamiliar
words from the text.
▪ READING ALOUD
► Reading aloud gives students an opportunity to
hear the instructor model fluency and expression in
reading technical or literary language.
► Reading aloud develops adaptive expertise.
Routine expertise relies on automated recall of
memorized declarative knowledge but adaptive
expertise depends on the acquisition of meaningful
knowledge.
▪ READING ALOUD
► Reading aloud helps students learn how to use language to
make sense of the world; it improves their information
processing skills, vocabulary, and comprehension.
► Reading aloud targets the skills of audio learners. Research
has shown that teachers who read aloud motivate students
to read.
► Research has shown that teachers who read aloud
motivate students to read. Reading aloud facilitates
narrative transport –a state characterized by absorption into
a story’s narrative flow; the listener may forget her
surroundings and engage her visual, auditory, kinesthetic
and emotional sense, and may experience a sense of time
distortion.
▪ READING ALOUD
► The value of listening within an instructional
dialogue may not be fully appreciated in our
fast-past, digitally accessible, media saturated, and
action-oriented culture.
► Active listening fosters contemplation and
reflection, without which students may collect
information, yet fail to gain knowledge.
▪ CHORAL READING
► Choral reading helps build students' fluency,
self-confidence, and motivation. Because students
are reading aloud together, students who may
ordinarily feel self-conscious or nervous about
reading aloud have built-in support.
► Choral reading is an interpretive reading of text by
a group of voices. Students may read individual
lines or stanzas alone, in pairs or in unison.
▪ SILENT READING
► Silent reading is sometimes considered as recreational
reading or independent reading as in silent reading
something is read in a relaxed mood and only a single
individual remains concerned about it
► When we read silently, we can form mental pictures of
the topic being read and discussed.
► Silent reading also helps develop the skills of reading
for a purpose, as the focus is on understanding the
content without having the additional burden to pay
attention to pronunciation.
▪ SILENT READING
Silent reading helps students to focus their
attention on the text; their increased
concentration on the text is sustained until the
entire text is read. This also helps students
absorb ideas into their subconscious mind and
then use them in their daily lives.
▪ SILENT READING
► The discussion question might support the
curriculum, focusing attention on the climax, or the
author’s point of view, or some other element of
literature that the teacher has introduced in class.
► A pair of ‘reading friends might select a book to
read together and talk about. Reading friends
sometimes look back through a book together;
retelling poignant, funny, or important parts said
Lucy Calkins in an article in Instructor magazine.
▪ SILENT READING
Benefits of effective silent reading include
steady improvement of educational efficiency,
exploration of a wide variety of reading
material, learning how to read with purpose
and confidence in dealing with all forms of
reading, whether for school, business or
recreation.
▪ SILENT READING
► The ability to sit and silently read a text is a skill
that all students will need as they move through
secondary education and into higher education.
► Similar to learning and active reading strategy,
students must have multiple opportunities each
day to practice reading silently.
▪ SILENT READING
Students must learn how to comprehend
texts on their own. They must develop
the ability to stick with a text and focus on
what it says over a period of time.
▪ SILENT READING
As students develop proficiency in
comprehending what they read silently,
we should increase the amount of silent
reading they do in class and at home.
LITERARY
APPRECIATION AND
VALUING IN POETRY
Literary appreciation is reading, understanding and
making a critical judgment of the theme, style, use of
figurative and non-figurative language as well as
other elements of a literary work.
We are all critics in one way or the other. Even when
we say we cannot really evaluate a literary text; we
are making a judgment.
Therefore, any attempt to discuss and
judge works of literature with an
inclination to giving opinions about it is
literary appreciation. Without any attempt
at appreciating a literary text, it is difficult
to justify that one has actually read it.
Literary appreciation refers to the
evaluation of works of literature as an
academic and intellectual exercise. It is
the process by which the recipient of a
work of literature acquires an
understanding of its theme(s) and subject
matter, and obtains insights into the ways
in which its formal structure helps realize
them.
In literary studies, a highly-developed capacity
for literary appreciation is crucial to an
understanding of the texts that are prescribed
for the courses.
Poetry teaches us the beauty and potential of
the English language. The innovative use of
language—of diction (word choice), metaphor
and simile, other figures of speech,
punctuation and capitalization—encourages
our fledgling writers to take a chance with
language
THANK YOU!
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