DR. ISAAC WATT WILLIAM BLAKE ANN AND JANE TAYLOR CHRISTINA ROSSETTI CENA LAIGHTON THAXTER ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE RACHEL FIELD DOROTHY ALDIS POETRY NARRATIVE BALLAD EPIC ROMANCE SONGS "Join me on my YouTube channel for more insightful topics! Don't forget to hit the subscribe button and share with your friends to stay updated on all the latest content!" https://www.youtube.com/@JehnSimon

2. • “Divine and Moral Songs For
Children” 1715
• Cradle Hymn – one of the best poets
*before there was very little genuine
poetry ever published

3. • first important English poets to write
poetry for children
• “Song of Innocence”
• “Cradle Song”
• “The Lamb”
• “Spring”

4. • Began to write for children scarcely
more than children themselves
• they wrote about flowers, birds, sun,
moon, stars, the season, fields and
garden
• “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
• “I like little Pussy”
• “Pretty Cow”

5. • has the ability to entertain all ages at
once
• works are entertaining for young and
adult
• “Book of Nonsense”
• “Nonsense Songs”

6. • Wrote very simple little poems for
children
• She was a greed master of musical
language and metrical arts
• “Sing Song”
• a collection of little nursery
poems

7. • Especially noted for her many
beautiful and truthful pictures of birds
and their ways in “Stories and Poems”
• “ The Sandpiper”
• “ Wild Geese”
• “ The Sparrows”

8. • A.A. MILNE
• He started his literary work by giving
his full attention to the writings of
plays
• his poems had delightful humor,
captivating rhythms and appealing
childish fancies
• “ When We Were Very Young” -1st
nd

9. • most successful in this genre and her
collection contained numerous poems
about people and objects.
• “ The Pointed People”
• “A little book of days”
• “Tavis and Toadstools”

10. • short poems for young people with
humor and charm
• “Everything & Anything”
• “Here, There & Everywhere”
• “Hop, Skip & Jump”
• “Before Things Happen”
• in 1 volume “All Together”

11. • Published “Under the Tree”
• her subjects were drawn from very
simple country life
• “ The Hens”
• “ The Rabbit”
• “ The Woodpecker”
• “ Milking Time”

12. • one of the modern poets for children
who has made use of her knowledge
of child psychology in her book “
Parents and Children Got to School”
• “The Merry-go-round”
• “I like automobiles”

13. • a new comer to the scene of
children’s poetry, has freshness and
charm in her poems
• “Whisper and other Poems”
• “Wide Awake”
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14. • lyrical, amusing and full of laughter
• “Hello and Goodbye”
• nonsense poems
• “The Llama who had no pajama”
• “The folk who lived in Backward
Town”

15. • has written an engaging book of
verse for young children entitled “The
reason for Pelican”
• he uses imaginary animals with
fantastic names

16. MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES OR
NURSERY RYHMES

17. • Published a collection of fairytales and named it
• Comtes De Ma Mere I Oye or Tales Of My Mother
Goose
• John Newberry
• Mother Goose Melody
•
• Oxford Dictionary Of Nursery Rhymes
• latest and most complete collection of rhymes
• Published by IONA and PETER OPIE 1952

19. • 1. Musical Quality:
• Children are captivated by their
sounds, rhyme and rhythm
• Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating of curds and whey;
There came a big spider,
And sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

20. • Action: Children like action
• Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.

21. • Humor: Children laugh at the sound of the
unusual combination of words
• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King's horses
and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

22. • Story interest: children love the story element
I have a little pony
His name is Dapple Gray
I lent him to a lady,
To ride a mile away,
She whipped him, she lashed him
She rode him through the mire,
I would not lend my pony now,
For all the lady’s hire

23. • Variety of subject matter: Children enjoy
the different subject matter of rhymes
• animals-
• alphabets
• dialogue
• counting rhymes
• games

24. •people
• time verses
• riddles
•Tongue twisters
•weather
• accumulative stories
• singing rhymes

25. • The repetition and unexpected combination of
sounds, the action and the presence of familiar
characters.
• they are good for ear training and for their
pleasure and amusement.
• Comprehension of meaning and ability
• the teacher recite the rhyme several times
and children just follow and imitate their
teachers.

26. VERSES FOR CHILDREN

27. • is a line of poetry having usually a determined
metrical or rhythmical pattern.
• HUMOROUS VERSE
• Deals with that befall real people or might
conceivably befall them
• befall: to happen especially as if by fate
• NONSENSE VERSE
• meaningless words as pabbles, jumbles,
potatoes that dance, chicken that go out for a
tea.

28. • they provide humor for children. Children laugh
heartily at the words even though the words may
be meaningless to them.
• they introduce the children to rhyme and various
patterns of verse.
• they serve as a release from tension and
anxieties.
• they provide children a means of escape from
reality.
• they are excellent for ear-training.
• they serve as introduction to better poetry.

29. • EDWARD LEAR, 1812-1888
• greatest poet of nonsense
• he published the BOOK OF NONSENSE
• 1871, NONSENSE SONGS AND STORIES

30. • His made-up words
• nonsense alphabets

31. • she uses funny words.
• she uses humorous tales.
• she deals with funny characters and funny
situations
• her verses have lyrical quality
• the monkey and the crocodile
• eletelephony

32. • He shows the child’s love of small animals
like mice, rabbits, puppies, snails, and
goats whose antics enliven the verses.
• Milne makes use of words, rhyme and
rhythm to convey character, mood, and
action.
• “the three foxes”

33. LESSON 4

34. • It is an artistic expression of thought and
emotion in rhythmical language.
• It is a kind of verbal music
• Is like score that must be interpreted by the
human voice in order to get the fullest
enjoyment

35. • POETRY has musical and rhythmical qualities that
children enjoy.
• POETRY appeals to the imagination. Poets make use of
words and phrases that are descriptive, sensory and
associative.
• emotional content of poetry must be sincere, worth
expressing and must be universal in appeals.
• subject of poetry on children must varied. There must be
subjects familiar to children and can add new and richer
meanings to their experience

37. • NARRATIVE POEMS tells a story and related
events
• Kinds of NARRATIVE POEMS:
• BALLADS are narrative poems that are
intended to be sung
• EPICS deals with deeds and heroic
adventures
• METRICAL ROMANCE are lengthy
narrative poems that deal of love and brave

38. • KINDS:
• SONGs are poems that can be sung
• PASTORAL POEMS are about shepherds and
rural scene
• SONNETs are poems of 14 lines. There is a
definite rhyming pattern
• ELEGY is a meditative poem that expresses
grief or deals with sorrow and death.
• ODE is a poem the expresses exalted feeling,
a praise for someone or something

39. • ENRICHES children’s experiences
• DEVELOPS correct enunciation and
pronunciation of words.
• DEVELOPS literary appreciation
• DEVELOPS the imagination
• ENLARGES the vocabulary
• IMPROVES the aesthetic sense
• Gives them pleasure and delight
• IMPROVE their outlook in life and nature

40. • use poetry to correlate with other subjects like History,
Arithmetic
• To commemorate certain events
• to express the meaning and rhythm of the poem in a
pantomime or interpretative dance
• to express their thoughts, feelings, and imaginations in
creative activities like drawing, clay modeling, sculpture

41. CHAPTER 5

42. • CHORAL READING OR SPEAKING is
the interpretation of poetry by several
voices speaking as one.
• it is the group interpretation of poetry for
the purpose of sharing enjoyment and
increasing enjoyment of it.
• it involves the use of book or script

43. • universal in tone
• lyrical and narrative
• Vary in mood, content and type
• Rich in auditory image
• Marked with rhythm
• Can be used with three voices

44. • REFRAIN: is used with poetry which contains lines or
verses which are repeated. Ballads are suitable for this
type of arrangement
• SEQUENCE: is best employed in poems which develop
its thought into a strong climax, or which two lines are
cumulative in response
• ANTIPHONAL: is traditional form of reciting biblical
verses. In this type of arrangement, one group responds
to another, most dramatic arrangement because it makes
use of contrasting voices

45. • UNISON poems expressing strong and
powerful emotions are best interpreted by
the whole speaking group rather than by
part groupings or the semi-choruses.
• LINE-A-CHILD each line of a poem is read
by a different child

46. • LIGHT OR HIGH VOICES for saying lines that suggest
fun, happiness brightness
• DARK or LOW VOICES for saying lines that suggest
mystery, terror, sadness, solemnity
• MEDIUM VOICE for blending all voices, for relating the
narrative, for introducing the character and for giving
explanation.