This document discusses teaching poetry to students. It provides examples of two poems, "From a Railway Carriage" by Robert Louis Stevenson. It outlines that poetry uses vivid images and ideas put together through words and rhythm. It also discusses different forms of poetry like descriptive, narrative, and reflective. The document proposes activities to teach poetry like pre-reading brainstorming, identifying new words while reading, drawing visuals of words, and writing about personal experiences to relate to the poems.

1. Teaching of Poetry
Jennifer Marshall

2. Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.
From a Railway Carriage

3. Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone for ever!
From a Railway Carriage

4. Poetry is an interplay of words and rhythm.
Words are put together, with vivid images and
ideas.
What is poetry?

5. The difference between poetry and poem
Poem and poetry are both important forms of literature. Each manages
to bring a writers’ creativity to life. These two forms of writing take
words and form them into a masterpiece that will last a life time.
Poem is a composition or literary conception, and poetry in form of
artistic expression.
Poem contributes pleasure. Poetry is appealing enjoyment. It is style
and form of art.

6. • Poetry develops the power of imagination.
• Makes learning an enjoyable activity.
• Poetry develops our aesthetic sense.
• Poetry allows you to play with language, sentence structure, to find new
ways to communicate, interesting and innovative language idea
• Listening to poetry, builds our listening skills.
• Poetry can be taught as a part of reading, writing, and listening skills
for language development.
Why?

7. Descriptive (The railway
carriage/The Daffodils)
Narrative (Abu Bin Adam)
Reflective (Mowlana Rumi)
Different forms of poetry

8. From a Railway Carriage
Robert Louis Stevenson

9. Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

10. Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

11. And charging along like troops in a battle,

12. All through the meadows the horses and cattle:

13. All of the sights of the hill and the plain

14. Fly as thick as driving rain;

15. And ever again, in the wink of an eye,

16. Painted stations whistle by.

17. Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,

18. All by himself and gathering brambles;

19. Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;

20. And there is the green for stringing the daisies!

21. Here is a cart run away in the road

22. Lumping along with man and load;

23. And here is a mill and there is a river:

24. Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

25. Find new words and their meaning (any
two new words)
Draw visual of any one new word
Activities to teaching poetry

26. Share your experience of a journey and
write a paragraph or two
What you can recall of your journey.
Relate the poem with personal experiences
Activities to teaching poetry

27. PRE-READING ( Brainstorming through visuals)
WHILE READING (identify new words/find
meaning/draw the words)
POST READING (write an experience of a journey)
Activities to teaching poetry

28. • Students should be asked to read the
poem in groups and discuss the poets
experience.
• Help students write the central idea and
present it.
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Activities to teaching poetry