The document provides several engaging ways to teach poetry in the classroom, including using music, writing fun poems, incorporating student choice, focusing on reading comprehension, using picture books, teaching writing skills through poetic devices, and playing games. It also provides an example of a biopoem about a person named Arnel.

1. Engaging Ways of
Teaching Poetry

2. Why
POETRY
is Important?

3. 1.Build Reading, Speaking, & Listening Skills
2.Explore Language & Vocabulary
3.InspireWriting
4.Encourage Creative Thinking
Poetry is Important because…

4. Carbonel

5. Entice them with music.
Students Love It
 Music Is Poetry
It’s Relevant
It Sets A Positive Atmosphere

6. Song With Lyrics That Work As Poetry

7. Write poems that are fun and
nonthreatening.
Incorporate choice.
• let students choose what type
of poem they want to write.
Put students in charge.
• give students the freedom to express their
imaginative side through their own means

8. Focus on reading comprehension.
Do not kill a poem by coming at it from
too many angles.
 We over kill the poem by:
• discuss it,
• write about it,
• complete a project on it,
• and then memorize it.

9. Use picture books.

10. Use poetry to teach a writing skill.
Through figurative
language,
denotation,
connotation,
symbolism,
 imagery, and more.

11. Play games. Spinto Generate Discussion

12. BIOPOEM
 Arnel is a name that may seem unremarkable
 But he's family centred, diligent, kind and lovable
 Victor and Lerma are his siblings whom he truly misses
 God, me, and our children, is he loves at all instances.
 He's happy when he's with us, sad when he's not, excited when he's coming by.
 He gives me love, joy, family that money cannot buy.
 Above all he fears God, losing his job and a broken family.
 He wants to see that we complete our studies, that we are safe and happy.
 He lives in a house that he built with his own hands.
 Carbonel is his last name, that when he changed mine, I didn't mind.